Usually means: Socket for the hip joint.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word acetabulum:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. acetabulum: Merriam-Webster
  2. acetabulum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acetabulum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acetabulum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acetabulum: Vocabulary.com
  6. acetabulum: Wordnik
  7. acetabulum: Wiktionary
  8. acetabulum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. acetabulum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. acetabulum: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. acetabulum: Dictionary.com
  12. Acetabulum (cup), Acetabulum (morphology), Acetabulum (unit), Acetabulum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Acetabulum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. acetabulum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. acetabulum: Rhymezone
  16. Acetabulum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. acetabulum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. acetabulum: FreeDictionary.org
  19. acetabulum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. acetabulum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. acetabulum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. acetabulum: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acetabulum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. acetabulum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Acetabulum: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Acetabulum: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. acetabulum: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  8. acetabulum: Medical dictionary
  9. Acetabulum: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acetabulum: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acetabulum: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See acetabula as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (acetabulum)

noun:  (anatomy) The bony cup of the hip bone which receives the head of the femur.
noun:  (zootomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
noun:  (zootomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
noun:  (zootomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
noun:  (zootomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
noun:  A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
noun:  (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.

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