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The meaning of LIMB is one of the projecting paired appendages (such as wings) of an animal body used especially for movement and grasping but sometimes modified into sensory or sexual organs.
LIMB definition: 1. an arm or leg of a person or animal: 2. a large branch of a tree: 3. an arm or leg of a person…. Learn more.
One of the larger branches of a tree. 2. One of the jointed appendages of an animal, such as an arm, leg, wing, or flipper, used for locomotion or grasping. 3. An extension or a projecting part, as of a building or mountain range. 4. a. An extension or part distinguished from the main body or group: the conservative limb of the party. b.
limb (third-person singular simple present limbs, present participle limbing, simple past and past participle limbed) (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree). They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
a person or thing regarded as a part, member, branch, offshoot, or scion of something: a limb of the central committee. Sport [Archery.]the upper or lower part of a bow.
In astronomy, it is the edge or border of the disc of the sun, moon, or one of the planets; in which sense we say the upper limb, the lower limb, the sun or moon's nearest limb, &c.
LIMB definition: a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing. See examples of limb used in a sentence.