innominate

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=nom=i=nate

CIDE DICTIONARY

innominate, a. [L. innominatus; pref. in- not + nominare to name.].

•  Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place.  Ray.  [1913 Webster]
•  A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava.  [1913 Webster]

Innominate bone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians. -- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

innominate, adj. unnamed.

Idiom

innominate bone n. Anat. the bone formed from the fusion of the ilium, ischium, and pubis; the hip-bone.

Etymology

LL innominatus (as IN-(1), NOMINATE)

ROGET THESAURUS

innominate

Misnomer

N misnomer, lucus a non lucendo, Mrs, Malaprop, what d'ye call 'em, Hoosier, nickname, sobriquet, by-name, assumed name, assumed title, alias, nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pseudonym, pseudonymy, misnamed, pseudonymous, soi-disant, self called, self styled, self christened, so-called, nameless, anonymous, without a having no name, innominate, unnamed, unacknowledged, in no sense.