Body parts that start with F

Fis forFace

Your face is the front part of your head. Your eyes, nose, mouth, chin and cheeks are all on your face.
It is not just humans that have faces. The picture is a gorilla's face.

Martin Fisch / CC BY-SA

Fis forFang

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Fangs are large, pointed teeth that meat-eating animals like dogs and cats have. Unlike tusks, fangs don't usually grow out of the animal's mouth.

Claudio Gennari / CC BY-SA

Fis forFeather

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While people and animals are covered in hair, birds are covered in feathers. Feathers are very light and the feathers in a bird's wings are especially designed so the bird can fly.

Jim Champion / CC BY-SA

Fis forFin

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A fin is a fish's limb. Fish have fins instead of arms, legs or wings. Fish can have a lot more than just four fins.
Fins can also be used to describe any small fin-like object that is used for stability, like fins on a boat or an aircraft.

Jack / CC BY-SA

Fis forFinger

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You have four fingers on your hand and one thumb. You use your hands to hold things, and your fingers to make things.

Randy Robertson / CC BY-SA

Fis forFingernail

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Your fingernails are the hard parts on the back of your fingertips. Your fingernails protect the ends of your fingers from getting damaged. Some people grow their fingernails very long, and paint them in pretty colors.

Shannon Kringen / CC BY-SA

Fis forFingerprint

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If you look closely at the ends of your fingers you will be able to see lots of small lines in your skin. Whenever you touch something, the oil on your skin means you leave a mark of these lines, called a fingerprint. Everyone has different fingerprints, and at a crime scene the police will be looking for fingerprints so they can try and find out who was there.

Fellipe Andrade / CC BY-SA

Fis forFist

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You make a fist with your hand when you close your hand up tight and tuck all your fingers in together.
People often make fists when they are angry and want to punch someone.

Willrad von Doomenstein / CC BY-SA

Fis forFlank

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Flank is another word for around your waist on your sides, the part of your body between your ribs and your hips.

Peter Burka / CC BY-SA

Fis forFleece

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A fleece is the entire coat of wool that is on an animal like a sheep. The term fleece is usually used to refer to the wool after it has been removed by shearing the sheep.

Julius Cruickshank / CC BY-SA

Fis forFlesh

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Flesh is the soft parts of a person or animal, particularly the muscle and fat. Flesh can also refer to the soft, edible parts of fruit. Flesh is not usually used to refer to fish.

Shu_ers / Pixabay License

Fis forFlipper

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A flipper is an arm, leg or wing of an animal that lives in the sea. Flippers have been adapted for swimming and look very much like fish fins. Flippers can be seen on animals like whales, dolphins, seals and penguins.

happyskrappy / CC BY-SA

Fis forFoot

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Your foot is on the end of your leg. You use your feet to stand on. You have five toes on each foot. You wear shoes and socks on your feet.

chaps1 / CC BY-SA

Fis forForearm

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Your forearm is the lower part of your arm, between your wrist and elbow.

Peretz Partensky / CC BY-SA

Fis forForehead

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Your forehead is the part of your head between your eyebrows and your hairline.

Richard Riley / CC BY-SA

Fis forFreckles

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Freckles are brown spots that you usually get on your nose and cheeks but can appear anywhere that sunshine can reach. Freckles are most common in people with very pale skin, especially people with ginger hair.

Kevin Dooley / CC BY-SA

Fis forFur

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Fur is the thick hair that covers many animals. If you are going to make a coat out of fur, it would be made from the skin of the animal as well as the fur that grows out of the skin.
Not to be confused with fir, a kind of tree.

Mervi Eskelinen / CC BY-SA