Femur definition
A bone in your body that goes from your pelvis to your knee and that helps you to walk by allowing you to move your leg from the hip to the knee is an example of a femur.
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Noun
Origin of femur
- Latin thigh
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Latin femur, (genitive feminis (“thigh”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dhonu (“fir”). More at tan.
From Wiktionary