Anat. and Zool. Pl. -æ. [mod.L.: see SUPRA- 3 a and SCAPULA.] A bone (or cartilage) in the upper or anterior part of the scapular arch or shoulder-girdle, in fishes, and in some batrachians and reptiles.
1854. Owen, in Orr’s Circ. Sci., Org. Nat., I. 175. The special names of the above elements of the hæmal arch of the occipital vertebra are, from above downwards, ‘suprascapula,’… ‘scapula,’… ‘coracoid.’
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 81. [The dorsal scapular] consists of a broad semicartilaginous supra-scapula and an ossified scapula.
