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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•a•coid (kôr′ə koid′, kor′-),USA pronunciation [Anat., Zool.]adj. - Anatomy, Zoologypertaining to the bone that in reptiles, birds, and monotremes articulates with the scapula and the sternum and that in humans and other higher mammals is a reduced bony process of the scapula having no connection with the sternum.
n. - Anatomy, Zoologya coracoid bone or process.
- Greek korakoeidé̄s ravenlike, hooked like a raven's beak, equivalent. to korak- (stem of kórax) raven + -oeidēs -oid
- Neo-Latin coracoīdēs
- 1700–10
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: coracoid /ˈkɒrəˌkɔɪd/ n - a paired ventral bone of the pectoral girdle in vertebrates. In mammals it is reduced to a peg (the coracoid process) on the scapula
Etymology: 18th Century: from New Latin coracoīdēs, from Greek korakoeidēs like a raven, curved like a raven's beak, from korax raven |