anklebone
Example Sentences
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But it was the unicorn, possessor of what Ctesias described as a cinnabar-red anklebone, that remains his most enduring contribution.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021
The anklebone is a match for a modern human’s.
From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2012
The foot, for instance, combines a heel bone like an ancient ape’s with an anklebone like ’s, according to Malapa team member Bernard Zipfel of the University of the Witwatersrand.
From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2012
Important to four-legged animals, the bone is not essential to man, though the lower 30% helps to anchor the anklebone.
From Time Magazine Archive
And by the time Aladdin had done grimacing over a banged shin, Margaret would have a bruised anklebone to cry about.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
