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    SHOULDER BONE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beingsplay

    Synonyms:

    scapula; shoulder blade; shoulder bone

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("shoulder bone" is a kind of...):

    bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

    Meronyms (parts of "shoulder bone"):

    glenoid cavity; glenoid fossa (the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint)

    acromial process; acromion (the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade)

    Holonyms ("shoulder bone" is a part of...):

    articulatio humeri; shoulder; shoulder joint (a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula)

    endoskeleton (the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates))

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