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Deltoid adj.

Shaped like the Greek delta; delta-shaped; triangular.

Deltoid leaf (Bot.), a leaf in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base.

Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint, which serves to raise the arm directly upward.

Of or pertaining to the deltoid muscle.

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Etymology of 'Deltoid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deltoid" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the grayish-white trunk, and their extreme slenderness causes them to droop somewhat like those of the willow. The white birch will spring up in the poorest kind of soil, and it is found in the highest latitude in which any tree can live. Its leaf is 'deltoid' in shape and indented at the edge. The bark of this species is said to be more durable than any other vegetable substance, and a piece of birch-wood was once found changed into stone, while the outer bark, white and shining, remained in ...

— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church

... five minutes as would smother you all in this room! I received, at the same moment, two musket balls in the thighs, a grape shot through the calf of my leg, a lance through my left shoulder, a piece of a shrapnel in the left deltoid, a bayonet through the cartilage of my right ribs, a cut-cut that carried away a pound of flesh from my chest, and the better part of a congreve rocket on my forehead. Pretty well, ha, ha! and all while you'd say bah! and in eight days and a half I was making a forced march, without ...

— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Words linked to "Deltoid" : musculus deltoideus, rotator cuff, simple, deltoid leaf, deltoid eminence, striated muscle, skeletal muscle