Definitions for calluses

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calluses cal·lus

Spelling: [kal-uh s]

IPA: /ˈkæl əs/

Calluses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in calluses (acellssu).

Definitions for calluses

noun

1. Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
2. Also, callose. Botany. the tissue that forms over the wounds of plants, protecting the inner tissues and causing healing. a deposit on the perforated area of a sieve tube. (in grasses) a tough swelling at the base of a lemma or palea.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce a callus or calluses on:

verb (used without object)

1. to form a callus.

Origin of calluses

1555-65; Latin callus, masculine variant of callum; see callous

Examples for calluses

But if we give it up, the calluses disappear; and if we meddle with it again, we miss the novelty and get the blisters.

I accepted the calluses as of long time and a matter of course.

But then he took her hand and felt its fine warmth, the calluses he remembered from all those months ago, and he felt better.

calluses [that were] painful when he danced … and a bad fungus that was all over his feet and into his flesh.

Let's have another look at his hand, to see if there are any calluses.