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nouna woman's close-fitting foundation garmenttype of:
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nouna band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
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verbput a girdle on or around
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"girdle the plant"verbcut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
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nounan encircling or ringlike structuretype of:
Definition that contains girdle
- girdle put a girdle on or around
- girdle cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
- gird put a girdle on or around
- deaden cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
- panty girdle a woman's undergarment that combines a girdle and panties
- ventral fin either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
- anguilliformes elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced
- limb-girdle muscular dystrophy an autosomal recessive form of muscular dystrophy that appears anywhere from late childhood to middle age; characterized by progressive muscular weakness beginning either in the shoulder or pelvic girdle; usually progresses slowly with cardiopulmonary complications in the later stages
- pelvic fin either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
- appendicular skeleton the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs