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   Cu·boid

   /ˈkyo͞oboid/

   

   adjective

   • 1. more or less cubic in shape: "the school was a hideous cuboid erection of brick and glass"

   noun

   • 1. a solid which has six rectangular faces at right angles to each other.
   • 2. a squat tarsal bone on the outer side of the foot, articulating with the heel bone and the fourth and fifth metatarsals.

   Word Origin early 19th century: from modern Latin cuboides, from Greek kuboeidēs, from kubos (see cube).

   Derivatives

   • 1. cuboidal adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • C

     3

   • U

     1

   • B

     3

   • O

     1

   • I

     1

   • D

     2

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