FORELIMB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forelimb mean? 

• FORELIMB (noun)
  The noun FORELIMB has 1 sense:

1. the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing)

  Familiarity information: FORELIMB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORELIMB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("forelimb" is a kind of...):

limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)

Meronyms (parts of "forelimb"):

forepaw (front paw; analogous to the human hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forelimb"):

foreleg (the forelimb of a quadruped)

 Context examples 

Dramatic changes also began to appear in the forelimbs of animals known as non-mammalian therapsids.

(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)

The forelimbs of these bipedal animals have been modified to form wings.

(Aves, NCI Thesaurus)

Although not among the largest of titanosaurians, Rukwatitan is estimated to have forelimbs reaching 2 meters and may have weighed as much as several elephants.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

At all anatomical sites disrupted by Holt-Oram syndrome mutations, BMP7 is expressed in all structures that are altered in Holt-Oram Syndrome patients, including the heart, proximal and distal forelimb, clavicle, and scapula, as well as other unaffected tissues.

(Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7, NCI Thesaurus)