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drumstick(dictionary)
drumstick appendage(medicine)

drumstick (iou)



drumstick noun. L16.
[from DRUM noun1 + STICK noun1.]
A stick for beating a drum. L16.
The lower joint of the leg of a cooked or dressed fowl. M18.
In full drumstick tree. Either of two trees, Cassia sieberana, an African shower tree valued for its timber, and Moringa oleifera, the Indian horseradish tree. M19.
Cytology. An appendage of the nucleus of a polymorphonuclear leucocyte, characteristic of females. M20.
Comb.: drumstick primula a primula, Primula denticulata, with a globular head of usu. purplish flowers on an erect stem; drumstick tree: see sense 3 above.