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limb
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
- Homophones: limn, Lymm
Etymology 1
From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”). The silent -b began to appear in the late 1500s.
Noun
limb (plural limbs)
- A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
- A branch of a tree.
- Synonym: bough
- (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
- An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
- (botany) The part of a corolla beyond the throat.
- Short for limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
Derived terms
- go out on a limb
- life and limb
Translations
Verb
limb (third-person singular simple present limbs, present participle limbing, simple past and past participle limbed)
- (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
- (transitive) To supply with limbs.
- 1859, Henry D. Thoreau, Walden
- Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
- 1859, Henry D. Thoreau, Walden
Synonyms
- delimb
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin limbus (“border”).
Noun
limb (plural limbs)
- (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
- solar limb
- (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
- (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- blim
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meros
English
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (m?rós, “thigh”).
Noun
meros (plural meroi)
- (anatomy) the proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “part”).
Alternative forms
- merus
Noun
meros (plural meroi)
- (architecture) the plain surface between the channels of a triglyph
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Anagrams
- Mores, Morse, Moser, Romes, mesor, moers, mores, morse, omers, s'more, smore, somer
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese mero.
Noun
meros
- white grouper, Epinephelus aeneus
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
Latin
Adjective
mer?s
- accusative masculine plural of merus
Portuguese
Adjective
meros
- masculine plural of mero
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?me?os/, [?me.?os]
Adjective
meros
- masculine plural of mero
Noun
meros m pl
- plural of mero
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