Thesaurus: deltoid

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1. a. Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
2. adj. triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex
3. n. a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm
4. Shaped like the Greek 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 triangular muscle in the shoulder which serves to move the arm directly upward.
5. Shaped like the Greek Deltoid leaf (Bot.), a leaf in the formof a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base.-- Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a triangular muscle in the shoulder whichserves to move the arm directly upward.
6. j:28/n:72 n. a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm s. triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex