/ˈhaɪ.ɔɪd/
OriginBorrowing from French hyoïde, from New Latin hȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs, “shaped like the letter "υ"”), from ὖ (û, “the Greek letter upsilon”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
- not-comparableShaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
“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-ou”
- not-comparable, relationalOf or pertaining to the hyoid bone.
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsisEllipsis of hyoid bone.
“the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid?”
- A curved line resembling the English uppercase letter U.
Formshyoids(plural)