girdle

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In fish, the pelvic fins and bones of the pelvic girdle are relatively small and float freely in the body.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2024

If allowed to grow up the trunk of a tree, it can eventually girdle or smother and kill it.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024

It makes sense that arms and legs originated in these folds, but “the girdle is more complex as it has links to head and its musculature,” says Martin Brazeau, a paleontologist at Imperial College London.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023

Powerful magnetic and electric fields flowing from and through the tokamak will girdle and heat the plasma cloud so that the atoms inside will collide and fuse together, releasing immense amounts of energy.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023

It climbed like a rising girdle from the west and wound snakelike about the Mountain, until before it went round out of view it reached the foot of the cone upon its eastern side.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien