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Navicular

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Shaped like a boat.
  2. 2
    Relating to boats.

    "Sooth to say, as far so^([sic]) workmanship alone went, there was much to be desired. Vessels that went "home," looking as if "they'd grow'd in the'oods" — to quote British Jack's description — could not but provoke unfavourable opinion upon our navicular art as a whole."

Adjective
  1. 1
    shaped like a boat wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A navicular bone.
  2. 2
    the largest wrist bone on the thumb side wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French naviculaire, itself borrowed from Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French naviculaire, itself borrowed from Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

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