meaning of costa
1. A rib of an animal or a human being.
2. A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
3. The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
4. One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
5. any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans and similar bones in most vertebrates
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