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# wishbone

«wishbone» in Mova's school dictionary: **a forked V-shaped bone between the neck and breast of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wishbone, wishbones)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wishbone is a forked V-shaped bone between the neck and breast of a chicken, turkey or other bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#m1)

2) It is used in a game where two people pull it and the one who gets the bigger piece makes a wish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

At Christmas or Thanksgiving dinners, children pull the turkey wishbone and make a wish. In science, the wishbone (furcula) helps birds fly. It is a custom and a game, not real magic.

### examples

- We pulled the wishbone after Christmas dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#x1)
- I got the bigger piece of the wishbone, so I made a wish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#x2)
- Let the wishbone dry before you pull it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#x3)
- The wishbone helps a bird's wings work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#x4)
- My sister always wins the wishbone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#x5)
- What did you wish for with the wishbone? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/#x6)

### note

Countable. Wishing on a wishbone is a fun tradition; it does not really make wishes come true.

### In the corpora

- [The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/11/)
- [Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/4/)
- [Birds and many dinosaurs share hollow bones, wishbones, three-toed feet and feathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/6/)
- [A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wishbone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wishbone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.