Meaning & use
rhomboids
A pair of muscles in the upper back that connect the shoulder blades to the spine and pull them together.
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Rowing exercises help strengthen the rhomboids and can noticeably improve posture over time.
Her rhomboids ached after an afternoon of paddling the canoe.
A note on using this word
Named for their roughly rhomboid, diamond-like shape; not to be confused with 'rhomboid' as a geometric term for a parallelogram.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
Plural of rhomboid: parallelogram-shaped figures with opposite sides equal but no right angles.
The tiled floor was made of alternating rhomboids in two shades of gray.
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