hyoid

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word hyoid. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word hyoid, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say hyoid in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word hyoid you have here. The definition of the word hyoid will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofhyoid, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French hyoïde, from New Latin hȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs, shaped like the letter "υ"), from (û, the Greek letter upsilon) +‎ -ο- (-o-) +‎ -ειδής (-eidḗs, -like, -oid).

Pronunciation

Adjective

hyoid (not comparable)

  1. Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
    Synonym: U-shaped
    This stick has a hyoid shape.
    • 1969, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
      The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary.
    • 2023, Brad Fox, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths:
      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.
  2. (anatomy, zootomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone.
    Synonyms: hyoidal, hyoideal, hyoidean

Derived terms

Noun

hyoid (plural hyoids)

  1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of hyoid bone.
    • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
      the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid?

Derived terms

References