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Noun leg has 9 senses
- leg - a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part between the knee and ankle
--1 is a kind of limb
--1 is a part of body, organic structure, physical structure
--1 has parts: | | peroneal vein, fibular vein, vena peroneus; saphenous vein, vena saphena; tibial vein, vena tibialis; crus; thigh; shank; shin; foot, human foot, pes; sciatic nerve, nervus ischiadicus; saphenous nerve, nervus saphenus; knee, knee joint, articulatio genus, genu; ankle, ankle joint, mortise joint, articulatio talocruralis; tibialis, tibialis muscle, musculus tibialis; leg bone; fibula, calf bone; tibia, shinbone, shin |
--1 has particulars: | | 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 |
- leg - a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
--2 is a kind of limb
--2 has parts: vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
--2 has particulars: animal leg
- leg - one of the supports for a piece of furniture
--3 is a kind of support
--3 is a part of
- branch, fork, leg, ramification - a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork"
--4 is a kind of subfigure
--4 is a part of furcation, forking
--4 has particulars: bifurcation; brachium
- leg - the limb of an animal used for food
--5 is a kind of cut, cut of meat
--5 has particulars: ham hock; leg of lamb, gigot
- peg, wooden leg, leg, pegleg - a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
--6 is a kind of prosthesis, prosthetic device
- leg - cloth covering consisting of the part of a garment that covers the leg
--7 is a kind of cloth covering
--7 has parts: cuff, turnup; foot; knee
--7 has particulars: pant leg, trouser leg
- leg - (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
--8 is a kind of travel, traveling, travelling; distance, length
- stage, leg - a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
--9 is a kind of travel, traveling, travelling
--9 is a part of journey, journeying
--9 has particulars: fare-stage
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