A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

osseus,-a,-um (adj.A): osseous, bony, of bone-like hardness; “bony. Hard, brittle, and very close in texture, not to be cut without difficulty; as the stone of a Peach” (Lindley); bony, “of a close and hard texture, as the stones of plums, etc.” (Jackson); cf. corneus,-a,-um (adj.A), “horny; hard and very close in texture, but capable of being cut without difficulty, the parts cut off not being brittle, as the albumen of many plants” (Lindley):

- semina testa cornea coriacea v. ossea nitida (B&H), seeds with a seed-coat like horn, leathery or bony, shining.

- testa crustacea vel ossea, seed coat crustaceous (thin and brittle) or bony.

- drupa carnosa, ovata, putamine osseo, loculo e processu dependente (B&H), drupe fleshy, ovate, with the stone bony, with the locule hanging from a process.

- putamine osseo 2-loculari, loculo altero vacuo (vestigiis ovulorum nullis), altero laterali majore hippocrepiformi basin alterius circumdante (B&H), with the putamen bony, 2-locular, with the one locule empty (with no remains of the ovules), the other lateral, larger, horseshoe-shaped, surrounding the base of the other.

- semen globulare vel ellipsoideum, arillodio vel sarcotesta carens, testa ossea, hilo lineari, see globular or ellipsoid, lacking an arillode or sarcotesta, with the testa bony, with the hilum linear.

- siliqua magna, orbiculata, oblonga v. linearis, cornea v. ossea (B&H), silicle large, nearly orbicular, oblont or linear, corneous [i.e. with the texture of horn] or bony.

- testa ossea semi-linea crassitie (F. Mueller), the seed-coat bony, one half line in thickness.

- siliqua late ovoideo-oblonga, utrinque obtusa, epicarpio spongioso, endocarpio osseo (B&H), silique broadly ovoid-oblong, on both ends obtuse, with a spongy epicarpium, a bony endocarpium.

- siliqua nucamentacea crustácea v. ossea (B&H), the silique nut-like, crusty [i.e. hard, thin and brittle], or bony.

Rubus osseus; Seseli osseum; the mushroom Polyporus osseus, “often develops a large fruiting body with many mouse-gray caps” (Miller).

“In regard to its consistence, the seed (i.e. semen,-inis (s.n.III)] is [semen] nucamentaceum, seu osseum, nucamentaceous or bony, which can hardly be broken in pieces between the teeth” (Barton 1804); see nucamentaceus,-a,-um (adj.A).