Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Specifically, in anatomy, said of muscles whose fibers run obliquely from the point of origin to the point of insertion, as in the so-called ‘penniform muscles’ in which a large number of fibers are attached to a long tendon-like barrel on the side of a feather. Correlative with
pyramidal , 3, or triangular, andprismatic , 3. - Having the shape of a rhomboid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
rhomboid , having a rhomboid shape
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid
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Examples
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A two-meter-high specimen from 1918 of the artist's lifelong project, which always consisted of rhomboidal modules stacked together, is exhibited in Basel.
Fondation Beyeler Show Places Brancusi and Serra Head to Head Goran Mijuk 2011
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He soared neatly over the central butcher block to smack with a slightly wet splat against the rhomboidal window on the far side of the room.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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If this identification is right, then the diapophysis of MIWG. 7306 is uniquely odd, as it possesses a small rhomboidal opening near its (presumed) posterior border.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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If this identification is right, then the diapophysis of MIWG. 7306 is uniquely odd, as it possesses a small rhomboidal opening near its (presumed) posterior border.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV Darren Naish 2006
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For this is the most complex of all the forms of bandaging, having most of the turns of the bandage called “ascia,” and rhomboidal intervals and uncovered spaces of the skin.
On The Articulations 2007
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They reached the transporter, a flat plane of rhomboidal segments.
The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000
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The leaves are alternate, trifoliate, with petioles 3-18 cm long and ovate or rhomboidal leaflets which are toothed or lobed, about as broad as long, usually large, in the range 4-20 cm.
Chapter 38 1987
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Coming toward them and drifting to an unknown des'tination was a long line of rhomboidal shapes.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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To his right, a broad rhomboidal window provided a view of the thick cloud cover currently smothering the Amazon basin.
The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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To his right, a broad rhomboidal window provided a view of the thick cloud cover currently smothering the Amazon basin.
The Man Who Used The Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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