anklebone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of anklebone
1350–1400; Middle English; see ankle, bone ( def. )
Example Sentences
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But it was the unicorn, possessor of what Ctesias described as a cinnabar-red anklebone, that remains his most enduring contribution.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021
The anklebone is a match for a modern human’s.
From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2012
The foot, for instance, combines a heel bone like an ancient ape’s with an anklebone like ’s, according to Malapa team member Bernard Zipfel of the University of the Witwatersrand.
From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2012
On the mountain itself, the most common injuries used to be simple fractures of the lateral malleolus, or anklebone, and low-level spiral fractures of the tibia and fibula.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he put his left foot up on his knee and fell to scratching his anklebone absently with a rusty nail which he got out of his coffin.
From Sketches New and Old, Part 4. by Twain, Mark
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