girdle
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In fish, the pelvic fins and bones of the pelvic girdle are relatively small and float freely in the body.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2024
If allowed to grow up the trunk of a tree, it can eventually girdle or smother and kill it.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024
It makes sense that arms and legs originated in these folds, but “the girdle is more complex as it has links to head and its musculature,” says Martin Brazeau, a paleontologist at Imperial College London.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023
Powerful magnetic and electric fields flowing from and through the tokamak will girdle and heat the plasma cloud so that the atoms inside will collide and fuse together, releasing immense amounts of energy.
From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023
He came back to Frodo, and then of his elven-rope he cut a short piece to serve his master as a girdle and bind the grey cloak close about his waist.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing girdle
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
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"For the Union Dead" by Robert Lowell
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