metacarpus
(noun) the part of the hand between the carpus and phalanges
Source: WordNet® 3.1
metacarpus (plural metacarpi)
(anatomy) The five bones that form intermediate part of the hand between the fingers and the wrist.
Source: Wiktionary
Met`a*car"pus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Definition: That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 January 2025
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
