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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Coccyx \Coc"cyx\, noun; pl. L. {Coccyges}. [L., cuckoo, Gr. ?, cuckoo, coccyx. So called from its resemblance to the beak of a cuckoo.] (Anat.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebr[ae] more or less consolidated.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes [syn: {coccyx}, {tail bone}]
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