Crossword clues for crus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crus \Crus\ (kr?s), n.; pl. Crura (kr?"r?). [L., the leg.] (Anat.)
That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.
Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 The lower leg. 2 A leglike part; shank. Etymology 2
n. (plural of cru English)
WordNet
n. the leg from the knee to foot
[also: crura (pl)]
Wikipedia
Crus can refer to:
- Crus, a subgenus of the fly genus Metopochetus
- Crus (lower leg)
- Crus, a plural of Cru (wine)
Crus (plural crura) can also refer to other anatomical structures that are leg-shaped:
- crura of antihelix
- crus of cerebrum
- crus of clitoris
- crus of diaphragm
- crus of fornix
- crus of heart
- crus of penis
- crura of superficial inguinal ring
- a leg-like structure of the little skate, used for locomotion
Usage examples of "crus".
I imagine Lentulus Crus, Laelius and Triarius will have enough to do in the north.
It came to him, slowly: a coherent and it seemed convincing self-explication, or confession, or cri de coeur, piece by piece.
Stammering, almost sobbing, Russie told how he had gone into the Lizards' broadcast studio expecting to die, how he'd hoped and intended to give one last cri de coeur before he did, and how Zolraag and the Lizards' engineers cheated him out of a death that had meaning.
Perhaps the best indicator of what the Russian upper classes apparently considered le dernier cri: in the foyer of every great house that the circus people visited stood a stuffed polar bear, erect on its hind legs, holding in its forepaws a silver tray for calling cards.
At any rate, when it is asserted that the plans represent the dernier cri in some form of war preparation, it is well to remember that a 'last cry' is last only until there is a later.
Sylvia is having Marcel and Jeanne Duhaux redecorate the entire mansion in Encino from basement to roof in the most devastatingly dernier cri.
He was wearing a prefaded jump suit, beautifully tailored, the dernier cri in the nostalgic 2100s, but really too youthful for his thirty-odd years.