LIMB

[noun] [C] - an arm or leg of a person or animal, or a large branch of a treeThe accident victims mostly had injuries to their lower limbs (= legs).He'd had an artificial limb fitted.She lay down to rest her tired and aching limbs.The cat had climbed onto an upper limb of the tree.If you are out on a limb you have an opinion which is different from most people's and unpopular.It's not exactly going out on a limb to criticize the government at the moment. -limbed [suffix]a long-limbed athlete