Crus

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  • noun. The section of the leg or hind limb between the knee and foot; shank.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A leglike part.
  • noun. A body part consisting of elongated masses or diverging bands that resemble legs or roots.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. plural The calcareous brachial supports in the Brachiopoda, as in Pentamerus and Rhynchonella, where they are a pair of short discrete, slightly curved lamellæ. Also called crural plates.
  • noun. In anatomy and zoology: The lower leg; the part of the hind limb between the knee and the ankle; the second segment of the hind limb, corresponding to the forearm or antebrachium of the fore limb, represented by the length of the tibia or shinbone.
  • noun. Some part likened to a leg, as one of a pair of supporting parts; a pillar; a peduncle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.
  • noun. Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a leglike part; shank
  • noun. Grades of wine; Plural form of cru.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the leg from the knee to foot
    • Word Usage
    "In another branch of the Indo-European family, the same stem * kro - produced the Latin word crus, "dear.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    limb  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Crista  brusquement  circumspice  curieux  fait  
    variant
    crura  
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