This stick has a hyoid shape.
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Hyoid
//ˈhaɪ.ɔɪd//
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The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary.
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Beebe referred to these never-before-seen creatures as monsters, as devils and dragons. But he though of their bodies as philosophies, traditions of thought, as schools of dragonism. A college drop-out, he wondered what was to be learned at their great university: An astronesthes with batteries of hells-eye lights on its cheeks, a looped string of twenty lavender glowing beads suspended from its hyoid dewlap.
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the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid?
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