Usually means: Long, central metacarpal bone, horses.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. cannon bone: Merriam-Webster
  2. cannon bone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cannon bone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cannon bone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cannon bone: Vocabulary.com
  6. cannon bone: Wordnik
  7. Cannon bone, Cannon bone, Cannon bone: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. cannon-bone, cannon bone: Wiktionary
  9. cannon bone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cannon bone: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cannon bone: Dictionary.com
  12. Cannon bone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cannon bone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cannon bone: Rhymezone
  15. Cannon bone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cannon bone: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cannon bone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cannon bone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cannon bone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cannon bone: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See cannon_bones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cannon bone)

noun:  A bone resulting from the fusion of metacarpals or metatarsals in some artiodactyls.
noun:  The metacarpal of a horse.
noun:  The metatarsal of a horse.

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