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His meticulously assembled forest of skulls, femurs, tibiae, and fibulae isn’t sacrilege; it’s a memorial.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

Frogs from the Caribbean lowlands of Honduras and Costa Rica are relatively large and have relatively long tibiae and small tympani.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.

Tibiae Sarranae, from Sarra, the old Latin name for Tyre, were a special form of tibiae pares.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George

Some of the closed leaves contained no prey, but in one there was a rather large beetle, which from its flattened tibiae I suppose was an aquatic species, but was not allied to Colymbetes.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

V. vulgaris often has black spots on the tibiae, which are wanting in germanica.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

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