shinbone

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”).

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shinbone (plural shinbones)

1. (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
2. (zoology) A segment of an insect's leg.

• tibia, shankbone

• Shinboner

• bishonen