shoulder blade

Questions about shoulder blade

What does shoulder blade mean?

shoulder blade means "either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings".

What is another word for shoulder blade?

Close synonyms include scapula, shoulder bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoulder blade a common word?

shoulder blade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.