Definition of "muscular" []

• Of, relating to, or consisting of muscle: muscular contraction. (adjective)
• Having well-developed muscles: a muscular build. (adjective)
• Having or suggesting great forcefulness, especially at the expense of subtlety: muscular reasoning that does not bother with the finer points; muscular advocacy groups. (adjective)

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• "These are known as the _striated_, or striped, muscular tissue; the _non-striated_, or plain, muscular tissue; and the _muscular tissue of the heart_."
• "He provides extensive new details about the Taliban insurgency, which he calls a muscular and sophisticated enemy that uses modern propaganda and systematically reaches into Afghanistan's prisons to recruit members and even plan operations."
• "I have even heard it maybe one of the causes of the increase in muscular dystrophy for adults."