FORELIMB

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "forelimb"):

forepaw (front paw; analogous to the human hand)

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

foreleg (the forelimb of a quadruped)

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