Word.ws English Dictionary

extrahyal

extrahyal adjective: outside the hyoid arch.

Adjective

extrahyal (not comparable)

  1. Outside the hyoid arch.

Noun

extrahyal (plural extrahyals)

  1. Cartilage outside the hyoid arch.
    • Outside of the deep internal visceral arches are the extravisceral cartilages. These may be divided into the labials of the mandibular arch, the extrahyals of the hyoid, and the extrabranchials of the branchial arches.1928, D. J. Frank, The elasmobranch fishes, page 67

Forms of extrahyal

pluralextrahyals

Origin of extrahyal

extra- + hyal

Questions about extrahyal

What does extrahyal mean?
Extrahyal means outside the hyoid arch.
What part of speech is extrahyal?
Extrahyal can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near extrahyal in the dictionary

  1. extrahepatocyte
  2. extrahepatosplenic
  3. extrahippocampal
  4. extrahuman
  5. extrahumans
  6. extrahyal
  7. extrahyals
  8. extrahyoid
  9. extrahyoids
  10. extrahypophyseal
  11. extrahypophysial

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: extrahyal (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:

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