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tympanoid

tympanoid adjective: resembling a drum or tympanum in form or structure.

Adjective

tympanoid (not comparable)

  1. Resembling a drum or tympanum in form or structure.
    • ...a prolongation of whose wall it seems to be) to the roof of the auditory chamber, which, as the reader will recall, is formed by the tympanoid sheet of connective tissue (the perichondrium) closing the posterior auditory foramen.1892, “No. I. The Vertebrate Ear”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 6, page 23
    • ...smaller bowl-shaped costate anthocyathus derived from cylindrical to tympanoid anthocaulus attached to hard substrates...2022 March 28, Asuka Sentoku, Keisuke Shimizu, Tsubasa Naka, Yuki Tokuda, “Dimorphic life cycle through transverse division in burrowing hard corals”, in Research Square, →DOI

Origin of tympanoid

From Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”) + -oid.

Questions about tympanoid

What does tympanoid mean?
Tympanoid means resembling a drum or tympanum in form or structure.
What part of speech is tympanoid?
Tympanoid is an adjective.

Words near tympanoid in the dictionary

  1. tympanography
  2. tympanohyal
  3. tympanohyals
  4. tympanohyoid
  5. tympanohyoids
  6. tympanoid
  7. tympanomalleal
  8. tympanomandibular
  9. tympanomastoid
  10. tympanomastoidectomies
  11. tympanomastoidectomy

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