astragalus

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noun large genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of north temperate regions; largest genus in the family Leguminosae
noun the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint

From Latin astragalus, from Ancient Greek ἀστράγαλος (astrágalos). Doublet of astragal.

=taba=, f., ankle bone; astragalus. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
But hark you me, if you were a scholar, you should know that in the most inferior members of those animals, which are the feet, there is a bone, which is the heel, the astragalus, if you will have it so, wherewith, and with that of no other creature breathing, except the Indian ass and the dorcades of Libya, they used in old times to play at the royal game of dice, whereat Augustus the emperor won above fifty thousand crowns one evening. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

genus Astragalus

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