NAVICULAR

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Latin navicula boat, diminutive of navis Date: 15th century shaped like a boat , of, relating to, or involving a ~ bone , II. noun Etymology: New Latin (os) ~e a ~ bone Date: 1816 a ~ bone:, one situated on the big-toe side of the tarsus in humans, scaphoid 2, one situated in the hoof of a horse behind the coffin bone