Hyoid

/ˈhaɪ.ɔɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
2. (anatomy, zootomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone.
3. (anatomy) Ellipsis of hyoid bone.
4. A curved line resembling the English uppercase letter U.

Example Sentences

This stick has a hyoid shape.

The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary.

Beebe referred to these never-before-seen creatures as monsters, as devils and dragons. But he though of their bodies as philosophies, traditions of thought, as schools of dragonism. A college drop-out, he wondered what was to be learned at their great university: An astronesthes with batteries of hells-eye lights on its cheeks, a looped string of twenty lavender glowing beads suspended from its hyoid dewlap.

the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid?

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