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crus

crus noun: the shin (tibia and fibula). Also the plural of cru.

Noun (1)

crus (plural crura)

  1. The shin (tibia and fibula)
  2. A leglike part; shank

Noun (2) capitalized: CRUs

CRUs

  1. (plural) plural of CRU

Proper noun capitalized: Crus

Crus (plural Cruses)

  1. A surname from Spanish.

Also used as

crus is also the plural of cru.

Forms of crus

Noun
pluralcrura
Proper noun
pluralCruses

Plural of crus: crura

Origin of crus

Borrowed from Latin crūs.

Variant of Cruz.

Words formed from crus

Phrases with crus

Questions about crus

What does crus mean?
Crus means the shin (tibia and fibula).
What part of speech is crus?
Crus can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of crus?
The plural of crus is crura.

Words near crus in the dictionary

  1. cruroplasty
  2. crurotalar
  3. crurotarsal
  4. crurotarsan
  5. crurotarsans
  6. crus
  7. crusade
  8. crusade bull
  9. crusade bulls
  10. crusaded
  11. crusader

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crus (page history and authors); CRUs (page history and authors); Crus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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