tibia
Noun
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Noun
tibia (plural tibias)
- (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
- (entomology) The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
- (arachnology) The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
- A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
- 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument (page 188)
- The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
- 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument (page 188)
- German: Tibia
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