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Thesaurus: pigeon-breasted

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

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Definitions

  1. a. Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
  2. adj. having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets
  3. Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
  4. Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being soprominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
  5. s. having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets