Wiktionary
n. (plural of pelvis English)
WordNet
n. the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates [syn: pelvic girdle, pelvic arch, hip]
a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter [syn: renal pelvis]
[also: pelves (pl)]
See pelvis
Wikipedia
Pelves is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.
Usage examples of "pelves".
There was no one available to do a C-section for disproportion, so those women died, and their pelves died with them.
S-shaped spines, short, broad pelves, and heads sitting directly on top of their necks.
All these girls had well-developed pelves, large mammae, and the general marks of womanhood, and bore living children.
Pare speaks of twins united at the pelves, who were born in Paris July 20, 1570.
New York in 1868, who were joined at the pelves in a longitudinal axis.
Suchey-Brooks age-determination system, a set of standards derived from the analysis of the pelves of hundreds of adults of documented age at death.