limbus

1. 1.

   a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure

   Broaderstructure

Other forms of limbus

plural

limbi

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 limbus

What does limbus mean?

limbus means "a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure".

How many syllables are in limbus?

limbus has 2 syllables: lim-bus. The stress falls on "lim".

Is limbus a common word?

limbus 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.