Definitions for coxa

coxa cox·a

Spelling: [kok-suh]
IPA: /ˈkɒk sə/

Coxa is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in coxa (acox).

Definitions for coxa

noun

  1. Anatomy. innominate bone. the joint of the hip.
  2. Zoology. the first or proximal segment of the leg of insects and other arthropods.

Origin of coxa

1700-10; Latin: hip

Examples for coxa

Its egg was attached to the coxa of the midleg of the cockroach.

The second joint of the leg, by which the thigh inosculates in the coxa.

The coxa is the joint that connects the leg with the trunk of the insect.

In the former movement the foreleg flexes sharply upon itself until the tarsal brush and coxa nearly meet.

The one next the body we will mark I, and we will call it the coxa.

The first of these is called the 'coxa', and is succeeded by a short joint called the 'trochanter'.

The first joint of the Brachium, answering to the coxa in the legs.

In one of the legs determine the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsal segments.

Thus in Tettigonia F. it is bilobed, and between it and the coxa two small pieces are inserted.

Occasionally there is some deformity, as when coxa vara develops.

Word Value for coxa
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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