hyoid en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈhaɪ.ɔɪd/
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ὗ (hû) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs)bor. Latin hȳoīdēs French hyoïdebor. English hyoid Borrowing from French hyoïde, from New Latin hȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs, “shaped like the letter "υ"”), from ὖ (û, “the Greek letter upsilon”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
This stick has a hyoid shape.
The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary.
1969, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition: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.
2023, Brad Fox, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths:
- (not-comparable, relational) Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone.
Deriveds
tympanohyoid · petrohyoid · subhyoid · mylohyoid · epihyoid · posthyoid · stylohyoid · basihyoid · omohyoid · thyrohyoid · hyoid bone · hyo- · mandibulohyoid · suprahyoid · hyoid arch · ceratohyoid · sternohyoid · infrahyoid · geniohyoid