| hip | | |
| n. (body) | 1. hip | either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh. |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ arteria glutes, gluteal artery | branches of the internal iliac artery that supply the hip joint and gluteal region. |
| ~ torso, trunk, body | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| n. (body) | 2. hip, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis | the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates. |
| ~ coccyx, tail bone | the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes. |
| ~ hipbone, innominate bone | large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis. |
| ~ ilium | the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone. |
| ~ ischial bone, ischium, os ischii | one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium. |
| ~ os pubis, pubic bone, pubis | one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis. |
| ~ sacrum | wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx. |
| ~ girdle | an encircling or ringlike structure. |
| ~ appendicular skeleton | the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs. |
| ~ articulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint, hip | the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum. |
| n. (body) | 3. articulatio coxae, coxa, hip, hip joint | the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum. |
| ~ ischial bone, ischium, os ischii | one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium. |
| ~ thigh | the part of the leg between the hip and the knee. |
| ~ articulatio spheroidea, ball-and-socket joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, spheroid joint | a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone. |
| ~ pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis, hip | the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates. |
| n. (shape) | 4. hip | (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof. |
| ~ hip roof, hipped roof | a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides. |
| ~ architecture | the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
| ~ exterior angle, external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon. |
| n. (plant) | 5. hip, rose hip, rosehip | the fruit of a rose plant. |
| ~ rose, rosebush | any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses. |
| ~ fruit | the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant. |
| adj. | 6. hep, hip, hip to | informed about the latest trends. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ informed | having much knowledge or education.; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer" |
| pelvis | | |
| n. (body) | 1. pelvis, renal pelvis | a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter. |
| ~ bodily cavity, cavum, cavity | (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body. |
| ~ kidney | either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine.; "urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder" |
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