Definitions for cuboids

cuboids cu·boid

Spelling: [kyoo-boid]
IPA: /ˈkyu bɔɪd/

Cuboids is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in cuboids (bcdiosu).

Definitions for cuboids

noun

  1. Mathematics. a rectangular parallelepiped.
  2. Anatomy. the cuboid bone.

adjective

  1. Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
  2. Anatomy. noting or pertaining to the outermost bone of the distal row of tarsal bones.

Origin of cuboids

First recorded in 1700-10, cuboid is from the Greek word kyboeidḗs cubelike. See cube1, -oid

Examples for cuboids

In the tarsus the cuboid articulates with both the calcaneum and the astragalus, which is remarkably flat.

Union of the navicular and cuboid, and sometimes the ectocuneiform bone, of the tarsus.

But this will not be so if the vase is spherical or if it has the shape of a cuboid.

The talus comes to rest on the third cuneiform and cuboid bones, the foot being abducted, inverted, and displaced medially.

Note, in a cross-section, that there are small ovoid or cuboid cells at the bases of the large ectoderm cells.

When the foot passes backward and medially, the head of the talus projects on the outer part of the dorsum, resting on the cuboid.

The distal row of the tarsus has four bones, three cuneiforms and a cuboid.

The foot in the Dwarf-Lemurs is long, on account of the elongation of two of its ankle-bones (the cuboid and the naviculare).

In the former the calcic scales and crystals are distinct and quite as in L. tigrinum; in the latter they are cuboid, irregular.

The cuboid is small; the scaphoid is large, and flattened from above downwards.

Word Value for cuboids
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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