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Sound
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noun
Either of two small bones that form the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: vertebrate anatomy
Topics: anatomy, biology, fish, ichthyology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences, zoology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From basi- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
