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basihyals

basihyals is the plural of basihyal.

Meaning of basihyal

Noun

basihyal (plural basihyals)

  1. (vertebrate anatomy) Either of two small bones that form the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
    • Coburn (1982) used a posterior extension of the basihyal to group many taxa in Notropis (s. l.) (93).1992, M. M. Coburn, T. M. Cavender, “Phylogenetics of North American Cyprinidae”, in Richard L. Mayden, editor, Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes, page 362

Questions about basihyals

What is basihyals the plural of?
Basihyals is the plural of basihyal.

Words near basihyals in the dictionary

  1. basigasters
  2. basigin
  3. basigins
  4. basiglossal
  5. basihyal
  6. basihyals
  7. basihyoid
  8. basihyoids
  9. Basij
  10. Basiji
  11. Basijis

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