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hyolingual

adj

hyolingual

adj

Etymology From hyo- + lingual.

1

Relating 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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