thighbone
noun
thighbones
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pluralof thighbone.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then they butchered it, swaddled the great thighbones in fat and burned them, so the gods could feast on the smoke, the immaterial and thus everlasting part of the animal.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
From the width of the thighbones of the two more extensive skeletons in the block, the researchers estimate that each weighed roughly 45 kilograms, a little more than a German shepherd dog.
From Nature ● Aug. 24, 2017
In Science last week Dr. Weidenreich described in detail the first thighbones of Sinanthropus, discovered by Dr. Pei among last season's material collected from the Choukoutien caves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Studying his old Chinese thighbones, Dr. Weidenreich decided that they belonged to a female who walked completely upright and was about 5 ft. tall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many thighbones he burned on the gods’ altars and many a woven and golden ornament hung to bedeck them, in his satisfaction; he had not thought life held such glory for him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
