hyolingual

English

Etymology

hyo- +‎ lingual

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

Adjective

hyolingual (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the hyoid bone and the tongue
    • 2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution”, in PeerJ‎, volume 3, →DOI:
      The evolutionary shift in the morphology of the hyolingual complex was apparently primed by the optimisation of the food transport behaviour and not for food uptake.
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