Library / English Dictionary

BICEPS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biceps"):

femoral biceps; musculus biceps femoris (the biceps muscle of the thigh; it flexes the knee and rotates the leg laterally)

biceps brachii; biceps humeri; musculus biceps brachii (a muscle that flexes and supinates the forearm)

Derivation:

bicipital (having two heads or points of origin as a biceps)

Credits

 Context examples: 

My biceps was being crushed to a pulp.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was the biceps that had nearly crushed out my life once, that I had seen strike so many killing blows.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then he rolled over on his side, his head resting on the biceps of the under arm, the forearm shielding his eyes from the sun.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)