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Epic story detailed Cana's first hippy? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

iliac

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(Other definitions for iliac that I've seen before include "Like certain body parts" , "Trojan" , "bottom of a hip bone" , "Relating to part of the hip bone" , "hipbone" .)

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