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Merus

noun

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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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