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CRUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: crura   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The leg from the knee to foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("crus" is a kind of...):

limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)

Holonyms ("crus" is a part of...):

leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

Derivation:

crural (of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot)

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