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hyolingual

hyolingual adjective: relating to the hyoid bone and the tongue.

Adjective

hyolingual (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the hyoid bone and the tongue
    • The evolutionary shift in the morphology of the hyolingual complex was apparently primed by the optimisation of the food transport behaviour and not for food uptake.2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI

Origin of hyolingual

From hyo- + lingual.

Words that rhyme with hyolingual

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Questions about hyolingual

What does hyolingual mean?
Hyolingual means relating to the hyoid bone and the tongue.
What part of speech is hyolingual?
Hyolingual is an adjective.

Words near hyolingual in the dictionary

  1. hyoidean arch
  2. hyoidectomy
  3. hyoids
  4. hyolaryngeal
  5. hyolarynx
  6. hyolingual
  7. hyolith
  8. hyolithid
  9. hyolithids
  10. hyoliths
  11. Hyolmo

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