Noun | 1. | ![]() body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity arteria glutes, gluteal artery - branches of the internal iliac artery that supply the hip joint and gluteal region |
2. | ![]() hipbone, innominate bone - large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis ilium - the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone ischial bone, ischium, os ischii - one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium os pubis, pubic bone, pubis - one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis sacrum - wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx girdle - an encircling or ringlike structure appendicular skeleton - the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs articulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint, hip - the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum | |
3. | ![]() ischial bone, ischium, os ischii - one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium thigh - the part of the leg between the hip and the knee articulatio spheroidea, ball-and-socket joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, spheroid joint - a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis, hip - the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | |
4. | hip - (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof hip roof, hipped roof - a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" exterior angle, external angle - the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon | |
5. | ![]() fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant | |
Adj. | 1. | hip - informed about the latest trends colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech informed - having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer" |