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Meaning of CORACOID

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Cor"a*coid\, a.[Gr. ?; ko`rax crow + e'i^dos form.]
    1. Shaped like a crow's beak.
    2. (Anat.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in
       most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to
       a process of the scapula in most mammals.
    
  2. \Cor"a*coid\, n.
    The coracoid bone or process.
    
 
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