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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The thigh. obsolete, rare
2. 2
   plural of MERU form-of, plural
3. 3
   The meropodite; the first segment of the raptorial appendage of a crustacean.
4. 4
   The plane surface between the channels of a triglyph.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μηρός (mērós, “thigh”).

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