shinbone meaning: definition, etymology

shinbone

noun

Etymology From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin + bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology A segment of an insect's leg.

Synonyms: tibia, shankbone
Derived terms: Shinboner