Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Anatomy The hip or hip joint.
- noun Zoology The first segment of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, joining the leg to the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The femur or thigh-bone.
- noun In anatomy: The hipbone, os coxæ or os innominatum.
- noun The hip-joint.
- noun In entomology, the first or basal joint (sometimes called the hip) of an insect's leg, by which it is articulated to the body.
- noun The basal joint of the leg of a spider or a crustacean; a coxopodite (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The
basal segment of alimb ofvarious arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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MH1 has a good specimen of the os coxa bone, more commonly known as “the hip bone”, which is, funnily enough, the “relevant hip bone” for diagnosing locomotion.
Australopithecus sediba and the creationist response - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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He devised a new treatment for «pes varus» and published a well-illustrated work on phosphorus necrosis and another on coxa vara.
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Omia: the shoulders: the lateral anterior angles of an agglutinated thorax, when they are distinct: = see umbone: in Coleoptera; a corneous sclerite to which the muscles of the anterior coxa are attached; also the lateral margin of the prothorax; also the lateral margin of the scutellum in Carabids and Dytiscids.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Humeral suture: in Odonata, runs from just in front the base of the fore-wing to the edge of the median coxa, separating the mesepisternum from the mesepimeron.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Mesinfraepisternum: a sclerite formed between propleuron, mesepisternum, mesepimeron and second coxa.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Femur - ora: the thigh: usually the stoutest segment of the leg, articulated to the body through trochanter and coxa and bearing the tibia at its distal end: in Coccidae and quite commonly, the femur and trochanter are considered as one, for measuring purposes.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Metinfraepisternum: in Odonata; the sclerite just above base of 3d coxa; below metepisternum and before metepimeron.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Hips: the coxa; q.v. Hirsute: clothed with long, strong hair; shaggy.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Nerinaeum: a ventral thoracic sclerite between the metasternum and posterior coxa in some Coleoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Flocculus - i: a hairy or bristly appendage on the posterior coxa of some Hymenoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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