femur C2 Topic:The Human Body US /ˈfiːmɚ/ UK /ˈfiːmə/ See IPA manual Freq #19980 Meanings 1 noun the thighbone; the long bone between the hip and knee in a vertebrate The X-ray showed a clean fracture near the top of the femur. 2 noun a principal leg segment in an arthropod, lying between the trochanter and tibia in an insect In a grasshopper, the enlarged hind femur contains powerful jumping muscles. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the thighbone; the long... thighbone Word family Derived forms femoraltransfemoral Related forms thighhiptibiaskeleton Etymology Borrowed directly from Latin femur ("thigh, thighbone"). The anatomical adjective femoral comes from the related Latin stem femor-. Topics The Human Body External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # femur **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈfiːmɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈfiːmə/ **Frequency rank:** 19980 ## Meanings 1. the thighbone; the long bone between the hip and knee in a vertebrate 2. a principal leg segment in an arthropod, lying between the trochanter and tibia in an insect ## Examples - The X-ray showed a clean fracture near the top of the femur. - In a grasshopper, the enlarged hind femur contains powerful jumping muscles. ## Synonyms - thighbone ## Derived Forms - femoral - transfemoral ## Related Forms - thigh - hip - tibia - skeleton ## Etymology Borrowed directly from Latin femur ("thigh, thighbone"). The anatomical adjective femoral comes from the related Latin stem femor-. ## Topics - The Human Body markdown