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lower limb

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lower limb [′lōยทər ′lim]
(astronomy)
That half of the outer edge of a celestial body having the least altitude.


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It was still early, and though the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
And just as Teeka sprang for the lower limb of a great tree, and Sheeta rose behind her in a long, sinuous leap, the coils of the ape-boy's grass rope shot swiftly through the air, straightening into a long thin line as the open noose hovered for an instant above the savage head and the snarling jaws.
Like the green Martians, they have an intermediary set of arms midway between their upper and lower limbs.
 
 
 
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