Difference between Hip and Coxa

What is the difference between Hip and Coxa?

Hip as a noun is the outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. while Coxa as a noun is the basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (as an insect).

Hip

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. The fruit of a rose. The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy

Example sentence: I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

Coxa

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (as an insect).

We hope you now know whether to use Hip or Coxa in your sentence.

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