Thesaurus: navicular

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1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
2. a. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.
3. n. The navicular bone.
4. adj. shaped like a boat
5. n. the largest wrist bone on the thumb side
6. 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship. 2. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid. (b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- Navicular disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot. The navicular bone.
7. s. shaped like a boat