Meaning

1 senses
  1. Either of the two legs towards the rear of a multilegged animal.

    Coordinate term: foreleg

    Hinterlauf, Hinterbein

    за́дняя нога́zádnjaja nogá, за́дняя ла́паzádnjaja lápa

More definitions
  • the back limb of a quadruped

Examples

27 sentences
  1. The dog stood up on its hind legs and put its front legs on my shoulders.

  2. The horse rose on its hind legs.

    ruЛошадь встала на дыбы. — Wezel

  3. Bears could walk on their hind legs.

  4. The gazelle stood on its hind legs.

    ruГазель стояла на задних ногах. — marafon

  5. Bears can stand on their hind legs.

    ruМедведи могут стоять на задних лапах. — marafon

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
either of two legs towards the rear:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
either of two legs towards the rear:

Forms

plural: hind legs

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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