Meanings
adjectivehyolingual (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to the hyoid bone and the tongue
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.
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
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with hyolingual
bilingualmultilinguallingualsublingualmonolingualtrilingualunilingualalveololingualambilingualanterolingualapicolingualaudiolingualaxiolingualbrevilingualbuccolingualcervicolingualcolingualcrosslingualdecalingualdentilingualdistolingualdorsolingualequilingualexolingual
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hyolingual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyolingual
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“hyolingual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyolingual. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hyolingual,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyolingual.
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