gluteus muscle

Questions about gluteus muscle

What does gluteus muscle mean?

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

What is another word for gluteus muscle?

Close synonyms include gluteus, gluteal 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 gluteus muscle a common word?

gluteus 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.