scapula
noun
either of two flat, triangular bones, each forming the back part of a shoulder in humans; shoulder blade.
scapulae
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pluralof scapula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Medieval Europeans prized beavers’ fatty tail meat as “forest cod,” and some Indigenous tribes fashioned their teeth into dice and used their scapulae as digging tools.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022
Depression is the opposite of elevation—movement downward of a bone, such as after the shoulders are shrugged and the scapulae return to their normal position from an elevated position.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Elevation is the movement of a bone upward, such as when the shoulders are shrugged, lifting the scapulae.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Woods has never met Golf Digest Visuals Editor Jenny Aborn, but of course notices the tiger tattoo stretching across her scapulae.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 2, 2018
That shoulder-blade is an extremely doubtful document, and I would like to put it side by side with the gnawed scapulae of a few of the commoner domestic animals before I admitted its humanity.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
