Meaning of hyoid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
   not-comparable
2. Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone.
   not-comparable, relational

Examples

“This stick has a hyoid shape.”

“The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary.”

“Beebe referred to these never-before-seen creatures as monsters, as devils and dragons. But he though of their bodies as philosophies, traditions of thought, as schools of dragonism. A college drop-out, he wondered what was to be learned at their great university: An astronesthes with batteries of hells-eye lights on its cheeks, a looped string of twenty lavender glowing beads suspended from its hyoid dewlap.”

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