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coccyx (n.)
1610s, from Latin
coccyx
, from Greek
kokkyx
"cuckoo" (from
kokku
, like the bird's English name echoic of its cry), so called by ancient Greek physician Galen because the bone in humans supposedly resembles a cuckoo's beak.
