Scalene: Definition and part of speech

Scalene

  1. n. A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
  2. a. Having the sides and angles unequal; — said of a triangle.
  3. a. Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.
  4. a. Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
  5. a. Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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