The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scapula \Scap"u*la\ (sk[a^]p"[-u]*l[.a]), n.; pl. L. Scapul[ae], E. Scapulas. [L.]
(Anat.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.
(Zo["o]l.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.
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n. either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings [syn: shoulder blade, shoulder bone]
[also: scapulae (pl)]
See scapula
Usage examples of "scapulae".
They opened and spread, fanlike, behind him: two more kite-shaped forms like giant scapulae covered in swan's down and white eagle's feathers.
No more that night, Calyxa insisted, and turned away, pouting as it were with her very scapulae, her back's small small, pouting I declare with her lean little buttocks.
Keff said, giving one last massive flex of his shoulders that took all the tension out of the part of his back between the scapulae, and let the weights down gently.
Larger bones such as scapulae had been made into gleaming white shutters that flanked windows of thinly stretched corneas.