apohyal

apohyal adjective: of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

Adjective

apohyal (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.
- In three species of Spheniscus, namely—Spheniscus magellanicus, Spheniscus demersus, and Spheniscus mendiculus, I found this muscle prolonged forwards to the great cornu of the hyoid bone, to the apohyal element of which it took a distinct attachment .1883, R. Morrison Watson, “Report on the Anatomy of the Speniscidae collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876”, in Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger...

apohyal (plural apohyals)

The horn of the hyoid bone; ceratohyal.
- Each of these elongations is accompanied by a slender muscle, one end of which is attached to the tip of the apohyal and the other to the lower jaw, so that by its contraction the loop is straightened and the tongue thrust out:1882, William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders, A History of British Birds - Volume 2, page 466
- The proximal of these is a small nodule of bone, .3 inch long, articulating below with the basihyal; it is called the "apohyal" by Pouchet, but, according to the nomenclature now ordinarily employed, must really be the cerato-hyal .1882, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 1882, page 300

plural	apohyals

From apo- + Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter Y”) + -al.

What does apohyal mean?: Apohyal means of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.
What part of speech is apohyal?: Apohyal can be an adjective or a noun.

Adapted from Wiktionary: apohyal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Cite this entry: “apohyal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/apohyal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.