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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RHOM'BOID, n. [Gr. rhomb, and form.]
1. In geometry, a figure having some resemblance to a rhomb; or a quadrilateral figure whose opposite sides and angles are equal, but which is neither equilateral nor equiangular.
2. a. In anatomy, the rhomboid muscle is a thin, broad and obliquely square fleshy muscle, between the basis of the scapula and the spina dorsi.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid; "rhomboidal shapes" [syn: rhomboid, rhomboidal] n
1: a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal
2: any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade [syn: rhomboid, rhomboid muscle]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle French rhomboïde, from Latin rhomboides, from Greek rhomboeid?s resembling a rhombus, from rhombos Date: 1570 a parallelogram with no right angles and with adjacent sides of unequal length II. adjective or rhomboidal Date: circa 1693 shaped somewhat like a rhombus or rhomboid

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. (also rhomboidal) having or nearly having the shape of a rhombus. --n. a quadrilateral of which only the opposite sides and angles are equal. Etymology: F rhombo{iuml}de or LL rhomboides f. Gk rhomboeides (as RHOMB)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rhomboid Rhom"boid (r[o^]m"boid), n. [Gr. ??? rhomboidal; ??? rhomb + e'i^dos shape: cf. F. rhombo["i]de.] (Geom.) An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rhomboid Rhom"boid (r[o^]m"boid), a. Same as Rhomboidal.

Moby Thesaurus

bend, bias, cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, diagonal, diced, foursquare, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, oblong, orthogonal, quadrangular, quadrate, quadriform, quadrilateral, rectangular, rhombic, scratch comma, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus, square, tetragonal, tetrahedral, transverse, trapezohedral, trapezoid, virgule