hyolingual
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- Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
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hyolingual (not comparable)
- 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[1], volume 3, :
- 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.