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say it: sahr-TAW-ree-is
sartorius is a noun meaning "a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body". It carries one recorded sense.
a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sartorius come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.