calf bone

Questions about calf bone

What is another word for calf bone?

It depends which calf bone you mean. In the sense “the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle”, the synonyms are fibula. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of calf bone?

WordNet records no antonym for calf bone. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for calf bone come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of calf bone

• Full entry for calf boneAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for calf boneWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.