coxa

Other forms of coxa

plural

coxae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coxa

What does coxa mean?

coxa means "the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum".

How many syllables are in coxa?

coxa has 2 syllables: cox-a. The stress falls on "cox".

What is another word for coxa?

Close synonyms include hip, hip joint, articulatio coxae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coxa a common word?

coxa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.