Limb meaning, definition and synonyms

1. Noun

A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

To supply with limbs.

To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

A border or edge, in certain special uses.

The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.

The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.

The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

Vocabulary classified under Physics

any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

Vocabulary classified under Biology

any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"

Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric