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hyobranchium

hyobranchium noun: a Y-shaped bone that supports the tongue of snakes.

Noun

hyobranchium (plural hyobranchia)

  1. A Y-shaped bone that supports the tongue of snakes
    • Unfortunately, these–as well as more recent ones like the important [40 ]–are resolutely craniocentric, mostly disregarding the hyobranchium, the postcranial skeleton and the soft tissues.2015 October 1, “An Extremely Peramorphic Newt (Urodela: Salamandridae: Pleurodelini) from the Latest Oligocene of Germany, and a New Phylogenetic Analysis of Extant and Extinct Salamandrids”, in...

Forms of hyobranchium

pluralhyobranchia

Words formed from hyobranchium

Questions about hyobranchium

What does hyobranchium mean?
Hyobranchium means a Y-shaped bone that supports the tongue of snakes.
What part of speech is hyobranchium?
Hyobranchium is a noun.
What is the plural of hyobranchium?
The plural of hyobranchium is hyobranchia.

Words near hyobranchium in the dictionary

  1. Hynson
  2. Hynsons
  3. hyo-
  4. hyobranchia
  5. hyobranchial
  6. hyobranchium
  7. hyocephalid
  8. hyocephalids
  9. hyodeoxycholic acid
  10. hyoepiglottic
  11. hyoglossal

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