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Words related to leg

Related / Similar Words: stage, peg, wooden leg, pegleg, branch, fork, ramification

Definition:

a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise";

(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack;

cloth covering consisting of the part of a garment that covers the leg;

one of the supports for a piece of furniture;

a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg;

a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part between the knee and ankle;

a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion;

the limb of an animal used for food;

a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork";

Hyponyms: fare-stage, pant leg, trouser leg, pin, peg, stick, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara, shank's mare, shanks' mare, shank's pony, shanks' pony, spindlelegs, spindleshanks, knock-knee, genu valgum, tibia valga, animal leg, ham hock, leg of lamb, gigot, bifurcation, brachium

Part Meronyms: journey, journeying, table, chair, tripod, spinning wheel, grand piano, grand, hospital bed, cot, camp bed, four-poster, body, organic structure, physical structure, furcation, forking

Derivational Morphology: ramify, branch, fork, furcate, separate

Anagrams: gel

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