styloid

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sty=loid

CIDE DICTIONARY

styloid, a. [Style + -oid: cf. F. styloïde, Gr. .].

•  Styliform; as, the styloid process.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the styloid process.  [1913 Webster]

Styloid process (Anat.), a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

styloid, adj. & n.
--adj. resembling a stylus or pen.
--n. (in full styloid process) a spine of bone, esp. that projecting from the base of the temporal bone.

Etymology

mod.L styloides f. Gk stuloeides f. stulos pillar