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51sty|loid — «STY loyd», adjective. 1. like a style; slender and pointed. 2. of or having to do with a styloid process. ╂[< New Latin styloides < Greek st < st pillar (sense influenced by Latin stilus style) + eîdos form] …
52sty|lo|lite — «STY luh lyt», noun. a columnar structure in limestones and certain other rocks, consisting of vertical layers at right angles to the stratification. ╂[< Greek stŷlos pillar + English lite] …
53sty|lo|man|dib|u|lar — «STY loh man DIHB yuh luhr», adjective. connecting the styloid process of the temporal bone and the lower jawbone: »a stylomandibular ligament …
54sty|lo|mas|toid — «STY loh MAS toyd», adjective. common to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone …
55sty|lo|max|il|lar|y — «STY loh MAK suh LEHR ee», adjective. = stylomandibular. (Cf. ↑stylomandibular) …
56Sty|lo|my|cin — «STY luh MY sihn», noun. Trademark. puromycin …
57sty|lops — «STY lops», noun. a tiny insect that lives as a parasite in the bodies of bees, wasps, and other insects. The stylops is a typical strepsipteran insect. ╂[< New Latin Stylops the genus name < Greek stŷlos pillar + eye] …
58sty|lo|sta|tis|tics — «STY loh stuh TIHS tihks», noun. the use of statistical methods to analyze the style of a writer or group of writers: »There are two essays in stylostatistics…and both show that frequency of items or classes of items can be shown to correlate… …
59sty|lus — «STY luhs», noun, plural lus|es or li. 1. a pointed instrument for writing on wax or a waxlike surface, as a mimeograph stencil; style. 2. a) a phonograph needle: »If the turntable is shaken by extraneous vibration…this will be picked up by the… …
60sty|mie — «STY mee», noun, plural mies, verb, mied, mie|ing. –n. Golf. 1. the position or occurrence of a ball on a putting green directly between the player s ball and the hole for which he is playing. 2. (formerly) the position or occurrence of an… …
