FORELEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreleg mean? 

• FORELEG (noun)
  The noun FORELEG has 1 sense:

1. the forelimb of a quadruped

  Familiarity information: FORELEG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORELEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The forelimb of a quadruped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

forelimb (the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing))

Meronyms (parts of "foreleg"):

elbow (the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow)

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

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

 Context examples 

“A child would know Silver Blaze, with his white forehead and his mottled off-foreleg.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)