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Fibula   Listen
noun
Fibula  n.  (pl. fibulae)  
1.
A brooch, clasp, or buckle. "Mere fibulae, without a robe to clasp."
2.
(Anat.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
3.
(Surg.) A needle for sewing up wounds.





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"Fibula" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the dose. But doves are not human creatures, and I know at once what my answer shall be. Give me the fibula, Publius, that clasps that cloak in which you look like one of your own messengers. I will write my answer ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... the stunted acacias the sun beat down with the pitilessness of a battleship's furnace, and it was not much better in the acacias themselves. Save for a lizard here and there, motionless as a bronze fibula, or a snake asleep with eyes wide open, or the flash of a "pinging" fly, all Nature seemed to have fled from that intolerable white-hot glare ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars


Words linked to "Fibula" :   leg bone


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