EXTERNAL BODY PART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does external body part mean? 

• EXTERNAL BODY PART (noun)
  The noun EXTERNAL BODY PART has 1 sense:

1. any body part visible externally

  Familiarity information: EXTERNAL BODY PART used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTERNAL BODY PART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any body part visible externally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("external body part" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "external body part"):

breast (the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest)

throat (the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat)

hood ((zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal)

arthromere (any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an arthropod)

lip (either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking)

labium (a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva))

caput; head (the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains)

cervix; neck (the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body)

frill; ruff (an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal)

breast; chest (the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen)

appendage; extremity; member (an external body part that projects from the body)

extremity (that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso)

face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)

face (the part of an animal corresponding to the human face)