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Coracoid

\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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)