fibulae
Meaning of fibulae
- 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 fibulae
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Hyphenation of fibulae
fibu-lae
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- fibulae is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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