/kawr"euh koyd', kor"-/ , Anat., Zool.
adj.
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.
n.
2. a coracoid bone or process.
[ 1700-10; coracoides korakoeidés ravenlike, hooked like a raven's beak, equiv. to korak- (s. of kórax ) raven + -oeides -OID ]