Dictionary Entry
callus
callus is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as Callosity. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Same as Callosity
- 2noun
The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
- 3noun
The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
- 4noun
(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
- 5noun
bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone
- 6noun
an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
Synonyms
- 7verb
form a callus or calluses
"His foot callused"
- 8verb
cause a callus to form on
"The long march had callused his feet"
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