gluteus maximus

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   the outermost of the three gluteal muscles

   Broadergluteus

Questions about gluteus maximus

What does gluteus maximus mean?

gluteus maximus means "the outermost of the three gluteal muscles".

Is gluteus maximus a common word?

gluteus maximus 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.