part of the monastic habit worn by members of many Christian, esp Roman Catholic, religious orders, consisting of a piece of woollen cloth worn over the shoulders, and hanging down in front and behind to the ankles
3.
two small rectangular pieces of woollen cloth joined by tapes passing over the shoulders and worn under secular clothes in token of affiliation to a religious order
4.
any of the small feathers that are attached to the humerus of a bird and lie along the shoulder
scapular in American English
(ˈskæpjələr)
adjective
1.
of the shoulder, scapula, or scapulae
noun
2.
a sleeveless outer garment falling from the shoulders, worn as part of a monk's habit
3.
two small pieces of cloth joined by strings, worn on the chest and back, under the clothes, by some Roman Catholics as a token of religious devotion or as a badge of some order
4.
a feather growing from a bird's scapular region
5. Surgery
a bandage passed over the shoulder to support it or to keep another bandage in place
Word origin
ModL scapularis < L scapula, scapula (in LL, shoulder)
Examples of 'scapular' in a sentence
scapular
June had made good marks that day and had won a scapular of bronze felt.