1. callus

noun. ['ˈkæləs'] bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone.

Rhymes with Callus

• digitalis
• prothallus
• maryalice
• borealis
• daedalus
• ilalis'
• ilalis
• pallas
• palace
• malice
• kalous
• kallus
• gallus
• dallas'
• dallas
• callous
• callace
• ballasts
• balas
• alice

Sentences with callus

1. Noun, singular or mass
The cutting must not be planted directly into soil until the cut end has dried and formed a callus.

2. Adjective
The callus keeps soil moisture from penetrating the cutting and causing it to rot.

Quotes about callus

1. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
- Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

2. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
- Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

2. callus

noun. ['ˈkæləs'] an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot).

3. callus

verb. ['ˈkæləs'] form a callus or calluses.

4. callus

noun. ['ˈkæləs'] (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid.

5. callus

verb. ['ˈkæləs'] cause a callus to form on.