gluteal muscle

1. 1.

   any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh

   Synonymsgluteusgluteus muscleglute

   Broaderskeletal muscle

   Narrowergluteus maximusgluteus mediusgluteus minimus

   Part ofbuttock

Questions about gluteal muscle

What does gluteal muscle mean?

gluteal muscle means "any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh".

What is another word for gluteal muscle?

Close synonyms include gluteus, gluteus muscle, glute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gluteal muscle a common word?

gluteal muscle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.