Definitions for coracoids

coracoids cor·a·coid

Spelling: [kawr-uh-koid, kor-]
IPA: /ˈkɔr əˌkɔɪd, ˈkɒr-/

Coracoids is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 332 anagrams from letters in coracoids (accdioors).

Definitions for coracoids

noun

  1. a coracoid bone or process.

adjective

  1. pertaining 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.

Origin of coracoids

1700-10; New Latin coracoīdēs Greek korakoeidḗs ravenlike, hooked like a raven's beak, equivalent to korak- (stem of kórax) raven + -oeidēs -oid

Examples for coracoids

As in other American Edentates, the acromion joins the coracoid.

Considerable remains of the sternal end of the coracoid are also found.

It arises above from a tubercle at the base of the coracoid process, which surmounts the glenoid cavity of the scapula.

This forms a kind of hook curved towards the inside; it represents the coracoid process.

The acromion and coracoid processes of the scapula are rudimentary.

Both have the median "sternum" in contact with the coracoid plates.

This ossification is evidently that shown in Notobatrachus as "coracoid."

Of these the prcoracoid is far the most prominent, and in the majority of cases the coracoid can hardly be recognised.

The clavicle, coracoid, and scapula on each side form a bony articulation at the glenoid fossa.

Its dorsal end is drawn out into a process which articulates with the coracoid.

Word Value for coracoids
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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