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hypohyal

hypohyal adjective: pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoid arch of fishes, between the ceratohyal and urohyal.

Adjective

hypohyal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoid arch of fishes, between the ceratohyal and urohyal.
    • hypohyal joint

Noun

hypohyal (plural hypohyals)

  1. One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.
    • ventral hypohyal
    • dorsal hypohyal

hypohyal meaning in Tamil

hypohyal in Tamil

கீழ்ஹையல்

Forms of hypohyal

pluralhypohyals

Origin of hypohyal

From hypo- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).

Questions about hypohyal

What does hypohyal mean?
Hypohyal means pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoid arch of fishes, between the ceratohyal and urohyal.
What is hypohyal in Tamil?
Hypohyal in Tamil is கீழ்ஹையல். See Hypohyal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hypohyal?
Hypohyal can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hypohyal in the dictionary

  1. hypohedonia
  2. hypohemia
  3. hypohemoglobinemia
  4. hypohidrosis
  5. hypohidrotic
  6. hypohyal
  7. hypohyaline
  8. hypohyals
  9. hypohydraemia
  10. hypohydrate
  11. hypohydrated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypohyal (page history and authors); hypohyal (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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