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ANIMAL LEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal leg mean? 

ANIMAL LEG (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL LEG has 1 sense:

1. the leg of an animalplay

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL LEG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANIMAL LEG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The leg of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("animal leg" is a kind of...):

leg (a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion)

Meronyms (parts of "animal leg"):

cannon; shank (lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals)

Holonyms ("animal leg" is a part of...):

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

biped (an animal with two feet)


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