LEG BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leg bone mean? 

• LEG BONE (noun)
  The noun LEG BONE has 1 sense:

1. a bone of the leg

  Familiarity information: LEG BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEG BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bone of the leg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("leg bone" is a kind of...):

long bone; os longum (in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leg bone"):

femoris; femur; thighbone (the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee)

calf bone; fibula (the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle)

shin; shin bone; shinbone; tibia (the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle)

Holonyms ("leg bone" 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)

endoskeleton (the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates))

 Context examples 

I take them back then, and indeed it gives me unease not to feel my yew-stave tapping against my leg bone.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The upper leg bone positioned between the pelvis and the knee.

(Femur, NCI Thesaurus)