Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Glenoid \Gle"noid\, a. [Gr. ?; ? socket of a joint + ? form; cf.
   F. gl['e]no["i]de.] (Anat.)
   Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression;
   socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone;
   as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which
   the head of the humerus articulates.