Cuboid

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cuboid \Cu"boid\ (k?"boid), a. [Cube + -oid: cf. Gr. ???.]
     (Anat.)
     Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.
     -- n. (Anat.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most
     mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth
     toes.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cuboid
       adj : shaped like a cube [syn: {cubelike}, {cube-shaped}, {cubical},
              {cubiform}, {cuboidal}]
       n : a rectangular parallelepiped