Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The section of the leg or hind limb between the knee and foot; shank.
- n. A leglike part.
- n. A body part consisting of elongated masses or diverging bands that resemble legs or roots.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy and zoology: The lower leg; the part of the hind limb between the knee and the ankle; the second segment of the hind limb, corresponding to the forearm or antebrachium of the fore limb, represented by the length of the tibia or shinbone.
- n. Some part likened to a leg, as one of a pair of supporting parts; a pillar; a peduncle.
- n. plural The calcareous brachial supports in the Brachiopoda, as in Pentamerus and Rhynchonella, where they are a pair of short discrete, slightly curved lamellæ. Also called crural plates.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.
- n. Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the leg from the knee to foot
Etymologies
- Latin crūs, crūr-, leg. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In another branch of the Indo-European family, the same stem * kro - produced the Latin word crus, "dear.”
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“As the fibres of the medulla pass up through the pons to the great inferior ganglion, and the fibres of the corpus striatum pass outward and upward to form the cerebrum, this procession of the fibres is shown in the annexed engraving, in which we see the restiform bodies passing up to form the cerebellum, and the remainder of the medulla fibres passing through the pons, and then, under the name crus cerebri or thigh of the cerebrum, passing through the thalamus and striatum to expand in the left hemisphere of the cerebrum.”
“We ain't got to de las 'crus' yit, an 'I couldn't make my dinneh on a crus' nohow.”
“There are 10 crus named after the villages that stretch for more than 20 kilometers in central-eastern France.”
“Jason Lee for The Wall Street Journal This system, called the "échelle des crus," was implemented about 50 years ago to protect Champagne growers.”
“Les Jardins de Saint-Benoît is a very smart riverside estate and an ideal rural retreat to sample the region's finest crus.”
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“Les Jardins de Saint-Benoît is a very smart riverside estate and an ideal rural retreat to sample the region's finest crus.”
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“Despite his affection for Champagne, Chef Ducasse's cellar at home in Monaco is dominated by Burgundy and Bordeaux, many of them grand crus and first growths.”
“Although Volnay does not have any official grands crus—the highest vineyard rating—more than half of its vineyards are premiers crus, the second-highest category.”
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“While there are no grand cru vineyards here, there are many fine premier crus, and the overall quality of its wines is probably better than that of Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crus’.
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Knee-ded Words
In honor (?) of John
aknee, anomalogonatous, anticnemion, bainberg, bandy-jig, besagne, bight, bott, knee, breast-knee, cartilage, cnemapophysis and 155 more...
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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SCIE - neurology
abducens.....draw..., ablation.....carr..., acetylcholine......., adrenalin.....nea..., afferent.....to c..., agnosia.....no kn..., alar.....wing-like, alexia.....no words, alveus.....canal, amacrine.....no l..., ambidextrous........, ambiguus.....doub... and 701 more...
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wickedwitch's list
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alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Lower Leg
Words meaning lower leg
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Leg or Lower Limb
Words meaning leg or lower limb
Tweets
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reesetee Good heavens. You're not reading O'Brian anymore; that's for sure. Apr 10, 2008
chained_bear WeirdNET does not list the definition I found while reading. (Younger readers will please avert their eyes. This is about human sexuality. Fair warning; I'm not being crude, I'm listing a scientific term I just learned.)
"The crura look like the legs of a wishbone that run beneath each of the labia... To keep us a little off balance, a 'crus' is an individual leg or part of the wishbone, while 'crura' is what you say when you are referring to both of them.
"The crura are made up of erectile tissue that is called corpora cavernosa, just like the cylinders that are inside the penis..."
(Guide to Getting It On, 134) Apr 10, 2008