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Spell Bee Word: Femur


What does femur mean?

Word: Femur

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Femur means the long bone in the leg that runs from the hip down to the knee.

How do you spell femur?

Syllables: fe - mur

Tricky part: The first vowel sounds long, fee, but it is a single e.

Watch out for: feemur, femure

Memory tip: Fee-mur is said with a long e yet written with one e, just like the e in me and he.

Femur in a sentence

Example 1: The femur is attached to the hip at a ball-and-socket joint.

Example 2: Our biology teacher pointed out the femur in each leg of the model skeleton.

Example 3: In the museum we saw the femur of a dinosaur that was taller than my father.

Fun Fact

The femur is the longest and one of the strongest bones in the human body; in an adult it is roughly a quarter of the person's height.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) skeleton
b) vertebra
c) cartilage
d) femmur

Show answer

d) femmur. Femur has one m; the three other bone words are spelt correctly.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

At her yearly check-up, the doctor showed my cousin an X-ray of her femer, and it looked strong and healthy.

a) healthy
b) yearly
c) cousin
d) femer

Show answer

d) femer. This bone ends in ur, not er.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

femur

a) hip joint
b) thigh bone
c) kneecap
d) shin bone

Show answer

b) thigh bone. The femur is the bone of the thigh; the shin bone lies below the knee, and the kneecap and hip joint are at its two ends.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

murfe

a) lemur
b) frame
c) demur
d) femur

Show answer

d) femur. Lemur needs an l, demur a d, and frame an a; f, e, m, u and r make only femur.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these animals also has a femur?

a) a dog
b) a snail
c) an earthworm
d) a jellyfish

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a) a dog

2. The femur helps us most when we ____.

a) walk
b) see
c) hear
d) swallow

Show answer

a) walk

Associated Words

More Class 6 Summer Spell Bee words starting with fe: federal, feign, fellowship

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