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noun
- The hyoid bone.
- 1973: the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted ? " Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
adjective
- Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue.
- 1969: The bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary. " JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
Etymology: From hyoíde, from modern hyoides, from Ancient Greek (polytonic, á) "shaped like the letter (polytonic, )".
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