Femur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A bone of the leg situated between the pelvis and knee in humans. It is the largest and strongest bone in the body.
  • n. A functionally similar bone in the leg or hind limb of a vertebrate animal. Also called thighbone.
  • n. The thick, most muscular segment of the insect leg, situated between the trochanter and the tibia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A thighbone.
  • n. A segment of the leg of an insect or arachnid.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The thigh bone; -- it is the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton, which extends from the pelvis to the knee.
  • n. The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See coxa.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The thigh.
  • n. In anatomy, the thigh-bone; the single long bone which extends along the thigh from the hip-joint to the knee-joint, articulating above with the pelvis, and below with the tibia, or the tibia and fibula.
  • n. In entomology, the thigh; the third joint of the leg, between the trochanter and the shank or tibia. See cut under corbiculum.
  • n. In architecture, the interstitial member between two channels in the triglyph of the Doric order.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    leg bone   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    femora    coxa   
    Form
    femoral   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Schemer    beamer    beemer    creamer    deemer    dreamer    leamer    lemur    reamer    schemer   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tibia    patella    scapula    pelvis    humerus    tubule    clavicle    anastomosis    tuberosity    thorax