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Word Meanings - HYOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself. Hyoid arch , the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull.

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Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself. Hyoid arch , the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull. -- Hyoid bone , the bone in the base of the tongue, the middle part of the hyoid arch.

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  • APPLICABLE
    Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
  • APPLICATIVE
    Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
  • TONGUELET
    A little tongue.
  • APPLICANCY
    The quality or state of being applicable.
  • SOMETIMES
    1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • APPLICABILITY
    The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
  • APPLICATORILY
    By way of application.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • TONGUESTER
    One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
  • SKULLFISH
    A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • TONGUED
    Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
  • TONGUE-TIED
    1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
  • HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
    See A
  • TONGUE-PAD
    A great talker.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • TONGUE-SHAPED
    Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
  • APPLICATE
    Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
  • SKULLCAP
    Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • UNAPPLIABLE
    Inapplicable. Milton.
  • SUBHYOIDEAN
    Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • STERNOHYOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
  • HONEY-TONGUED
    Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • INTERCARTILAGINOUS
    Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.
  • GENIOHYOID
    Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.
  • ADDER'S-TONGUE
    A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
  • INAPPLICABILITY
    The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
  • LONG-TONGUE
    The wryneck.

 

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