fibula
Meaning of fibula
noun
- the outer and usually smaller of the two bones between the knee and the ankle (or the equivalent joints in other terrestrial vertebrates), parallel with the tibia.
- a brooch or clasp.
late 16th century: from Latin, ‘brooch’, perhaps related to figere ‘to fix’. The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.
Information about fibula
- It is a name.
- The plural form of fibula is: fibulas.
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Hyphenation of fibula
fibula
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- fibula is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of fibula
Words that rhyme with fibula
Bula, Ashtabula, Sabula, acetabula, cunabula, fabula, incunabula, tabula, tintinnabula, amebula, nebula, Pribula, hyomandibula, infundibula, mandibula, tibiofibula, vestibula, Galbula, albula, Mobula, mobula, Barbula, barbula, corbula
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