a. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Having a form resembling or approximating to that of a cube.
1803. Naval Chron., X. 199. Chrystals of cuboidal pyrites.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., v. 93. Certain granites break up in large square-like blocks—a structure which is styled tabular or cuboidal.
2. Anat. Of or belonging to the cuboid bone.
1866. Huxley, in Laing, Preh. Rem. Caithn., 146. The calcaneum … from the lower edge of the cuboidal facet to the extreme end of the calcaneal process measures 2·55.
