Lexic.us

Definition of Costa

1. Noun. A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).

2. Noun. Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates).

Definition of Costa

1. n. A rib of an animal or a human being.

Definition of Costa

1. Noun. (anatomy) A rib. ¹

2. Noun. (biology) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Costa

1. a rib [n -TAE] : COSTAL [adj], COSTALLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Costa

1. Rod shaped intracellular organelle lying below the undulating membrane of Trichomonas. Generates active bending associated with local loss of birefringence at the bending zone, probably as a result of conformational change in the longitudinal lamellae. Major protein approximately 90 kD. (10 Nov 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Costa

cost increase cost ledger cost objective cost of capital cost of illness cost of living cost oil cost overrun cost per available seat mile cost price

cost prices cost savings cost sharing cost the earth cost up costa (current term) costa cervicalis costable costae costae fluctuantes

costae fluitantes costae spuriae costae verae costage costages costain costain gun costain guns costained costal

Literary usage of Costa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"The dispute was finally given The largest sources of income are the export were ordered to costa Rica to protect American items of expenditures are finance, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"Da costa was partner with Bernal foi 5001. of the consideration for the ... The debt claimed from the Plaintiff by Da costa amounted to 7900/. and interest ..."

3. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress: With by Clara Egli Le Gear, Philip Lee Phillips, Library of Congress Map Division (1920)
"costa Rica. costa Rica-Panama arbitration. Maps annexed to the answer of costa Rica to ... Carte de la ligne frontière entre le costa Rica et la Colombie. ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Da costa died at his lodgings in the Strand in May 1791, and was buried in the Portuguese Jews' cemetery at Mile End (Will. rey. in PCC, June 1791; LYSONS, ..."

5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1852)
"All merchants, commanders of ships, and others, citizens of the United States, ehall have full liberty, in all the territories of the Republic of costa Rica ..."

6. The British Noctuae and Their Varieties by James William Tutt (1892)
"The superior wings are very much powdered with white, above all on the costa, extending to the stigmata and the sub- terminal space, but the terminal space ..."

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