Meaning

3 senses
  1. A thighbone.

  2. The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.

    Femur

    бедро́bedró

  3. A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

More definitions
  • the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The human femur is tougher than concrete.

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  2. Tom broke his femur.

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  3. The femoral head is a round knob of bone at the top of the femur, also known as the thigh bone.

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  4. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his right femur in a cycling accident Sunday in France.

    ruВ воскресенье генеральный секретарь США Джон Керри, находясь во Франции, в результате падения с велосипеда сломал правую бедренную кость.

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  5. The scientists say they unearthed two enormous vertebrae and a femur, or thigh bone, of a plant-eating sauropod species called Alamosaurus.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
segment of insect’s leg:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
segment of insect’s leg:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

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Forms

plural: femurs / femora
Singularfemur
Pluralfemurs / femora

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee:thighbonefemoris

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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