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Answer for the clue "Kind of triangle or muscle ", 7 letters:
scalene

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Word definitions for scalene in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context geometry of a triangle English) Having each of its three sides of different lengths. n. A scalene muscle.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a triangle having three sides of different lengths of or relating to any of the scalene muscles

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scalene \Sca*lene"\, a. [L. scalenus, Gr. ?: cf. F. scal[`e]ne.] (Geom.) Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle. Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone. (Anat.) Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles. ...

Usage examples of scalene.

Not to mention the fact that Scalene could round up a few of his goblin buddies and reactivate the triad.

General Scalene puts on the skin and just walks out the front door, fooling all your scanners on the way.

First of all, Scalene escapes, and now his locater shows up and he wants to talk to Commander Root.

All the secondary entrances have long since subsided, so if Scalene is in there, he has to go through us to go home.

Root and Scalene, disintegrated into a cloud of shrapnel and dust, particles ricocheting off the tunnel walls.

First General Scalene, then Commander Root, and now Holly and Artemis Fowl.

Cuspids really were the result of some geo-physical event, it would be natural to expect to see them distributed at random: as a result the triangulation would be scalene or irregular, whereas those concerning the lunar objects lead to a basilary system, with co-ordinates x,y,x, to the right angle, six isosceles triangles and two axes consisting of three points each.

If all we have are sense-perceptions and images derived from sense, then we can never be aware of anything but a particular triangle, one that is either isosceles, scalene, or equilateral, one that has a certain size or area, one the lines of which are either black or of some other color, and so on.

It shifted its contours, shrank, and became a spiky sort of scalene pyramid, deep-purple in hue.

A sufficiently severe back and crosswise wrench of the head against the contraction of the anterior scalene usually tears or loosens the anterior tubercles of the fourth through the sixth vertebrae.

It shifted its contours, shrank, and became a spiky sort of scalene pyramid, deep purple in hue.

The heron was twice as tall as a man, and waded the water on scalene legs.

He juggled in his mind with the scalene triangle that could be drawn connecting Atropos with the two flagships.