the malleus is a form of:

Malleus



ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium.
2.
One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera.
3.
A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.