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Hyoid vs Beardfish - What's the difference?

hyoid | beardfish |

As nouns the difference between hyoid and beardfish

is that hyoid is the hyoid bone while beardfish is any of various deep-sea fish, of the family polymixiidae , that have a pair of long hyoid barbels.

As an adjective hyoid

is shaped like a u, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue.

hyoid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue.
  • * 1969': The '''hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary. — JG Ballard, ''The Atrocity Exhibition

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The hyoid bone.
  • * 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

    • beardfish

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia beardfish) (Polymixiidae) (en-noun)
  • Any of various deep-sea fish, of the family Polymixiidae , that have a pair of long hyoid barbels