Definition of: coracoid

(kôr′ə·koid, kor′-) adjective
1. Zool. Designating the posterior inferior process of the shoulder girdle, a separate bone in many animals, as birds, reptiles, and monotremes, that unites with the scapula to form the glenoid cavity.
2. Shaped like a raven's beak.
—noun
1. The coracoid process.
2. The chief bone of the shoulder girdle of a teleost fish. [<Gk. korakoeidēs <korax, korakis raven + eidos form]