Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun trochanter

1 sense of trochanter

Sense 1
trochanter -- (one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached)
       => process, outgrowth, appendage -- (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process")