hueso hioides

Phonetic: "/ˈhaɪɔɪd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The hyoid bone.

Example: 1973: the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid? — Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise

Phonetic: "/ˈhaɪɔɪd/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue.

Example: 1969: The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary. — JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

Phonetic: "/bəʉn/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

Definition: Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

Definition: A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

Definition: A bonefish

Definition: One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

Definition: One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

Definition: Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

Definition: The framework of anything.

Definition: An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Definition: A dollar.

Definition: The wishbone formation.

Definition: An erect penis; a boner.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

Phonetic: "/bəʉn/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

Definition: To fertilize with bone.

Definition: To put whalebone into.

Example: to bone stays

Definition: To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

Example: boning rod

Definition: (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

Definition: (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

Definition: (usually with "up") To study.

Example: bone up

Definition: To polish boots to a shiny finish.

Phonetic: "/bəʉn/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.