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Femur

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noun. A bone of the leg situated between the pelvis and knee in humans. It is the largest and strongest bone in the body.

noun. A functionally similar bone in the leg or hind limb of other vertebrates.

noun. The thick, most muscular segment of the insect leg, situated between the trochanter and the tibia.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

noun. The thigh.

noun. 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.

noun. In entomology, the thigh; the third joint of the leg, between the trochanter and the shank or tibia. See cut under corbiculum.

noun. In architecture, the interstitial member between two channels in the triglyph of the Doric order.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun. The thigh bone; -- it is the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton, which extends from the pelvis to the knee.

noun. The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See coxa.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

noun. A thighbone.

noun. A segment of the leg of an insect or arachnid.

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noun. the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee

Word Usage

"Bisecting the main room is a floor-to-ceiling femur from a prison production of "King Kong" (bought secondhand) which stands against the wall."

cross-reference

pilastered femur

Form

femoral

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

leg bone

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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variant

coxa femora