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DELTOID

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm

Synonyms:

deltoid; deltoid muscle; musculus deltoideus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("deltoid" is a kind of...):

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Holonyms ("deltoid" is a part of...):

rotator cuff (a supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)

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