CRUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: crura

Meaning:

The leg from the knee to foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)

Holonyms ("crus" 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)

Derivation:

crural (of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot)