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cuboidal

cuboidal adjective: resembling a cube.

Adjective

cuboidal (comparative more cuboidal, superlative most cuboidal)

  1. Resembling a cube.
    • The alveolar cells are cuboidal in shape.
    • The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis.1958 September, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613
  2. Of, pertaining to, or having the shape of a cuboid.
    • A cuboidal block was formed.
  3. Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells whose height and width are approximately the same (cube shaped).

cuboidal meaning in Tamil and Bengali

cuboidal in Tamil

கனசதுர உரு

cuboidal in Bengali

ঘনকের মতো

Forms of cuboidal

comparativemore cuboidal
superlativemost cuboidal

Origin of cuboidal

From cuboid + -al.

Words formed from cuboidal

Phrases with cuboidal

Words that rhyme with cuboidal

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Questions about cuboidal

What does cuboidal mean?
Cuboidal means resembling a cube.
What is cuboidal in Tamil?
Cuboidal in Tamil is கனசதுர உரு. See Cuboidal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cuboidal?
Cuboidal is an adjective.

Words near cuboidal in the dictionary

  1. cubohemioctahedron
  2. cuboid
  3. cuboid bone
  4. cuboid bones
  5. cuboid syndrome
  6. cuboidal
  7. cuboidal bone
  8. cuboidal bones
  9. cuboidectomy
  10. cuboideonavicular
  11. cuboids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuboidal (page history and authors); cuboidal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cuboidal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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