Definitions for Bursa

Bursa bur·sa

Spelling: [bur-suh]
IPA: /ˈbɜr sə/

Bursa is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in Bursa (abrsu).

Definitions for Bursa

noun

  1. Anatomy, Zoology. a pouch, sac, or vesicle, especially a sac containing synovia, to facilitate motion, as between a tendon and a bone.
  2. a city in NW Turkey in Asia: a former capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Origin of Bursa

1795-1805; New Latin, Late Latin bursa a bag, pouch, purse Greek býrsa a skin, hide

Examples for Bursa

bursa: a pouch or sac: a wing pouch in male caddice flies and in connection with a stalked hair pencil.

The chief of this caravan was called Hoyarbarach; he was a native of bursa, and one of its principal inhabitants.

Sebific duct: carries the excretions of the colleterial gland to the bursa copulatrix.

Fine silk was produced at bursa, and exported to Venice and Lucca, for the manufacture of velvet.

In consequence, they notified to me that we must separate, and I was obliged to set off for bursa.

They made their way to Bamberg, but there was no room for them in the bursa.

I feel sure you are glad about bursa, but your congratulations are too half-hearted.

Later adhesions between the peritoneal surfaces lining the interior of the bursa limit this extension.

In horses, a distension of the bursa or sheath of the true hock joint.

It was at bursa that I ate, for the first time, caviare and olive oil.

Word Value for Bursa
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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