styloid

From style or stylus +‎ -oid (“-like, resembling”). Compare Ancient Greek στῡλοειδής (stūloeidḗs).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaɪ.lɔɪd/

• Rhymes: -aɪlɔɪd

styloid (not comparable)

1. Resembling a stylus or pen.

   Synonym: styliform

2. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
   • 2004, Herve Le Guyader, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist, page 162:

     But is the human hyoid nevertheless absolutely deprived of the lateral parts of the skull? That is not the case. A ligament coming from each small callosity or from the apohyal is prolonged laterally and reaches the extremity of the styloid apophysis.

• styliform, styloform

• poststyloid
• prestyloid
• stylo-, styl-
• styloid process
• styloid syndrome

styloid (plural styloids)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of styloid process.

• “styloid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “styloid”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Doylist, ditosyl, odylist