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coccyx
n.,
pl. coccyges, cuckoo < Gr kokkyx (< kokku, echoic of its cry): so called because shaped like a cuckoo‘s beak6 a small, triangular bone at the lower end of the vertebral column, formed by the fusion of four rudimentary vertebrae and articulating with the sacrum
That's a cuckoo name.
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