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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between the scapulæ or shoulder-blades.
  • noun In ornithology, an interscapular feather; one of the feathers of the interscapulum.
  • noun In the calyx plates of certain Cystoidea, like Caryocrinus, one of the plates of the third cycle representing the interradials of the Crinoidea.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Between the scapulæ or shoulder blades.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the upper back, or the part between the shoulders.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Between the shoulder blades

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ scapular

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