Styloid \Sty"loid\, a. [Style + -oid: cf. F. stylo["i]de, Gr. ?.]

1. Styliform; as, the styloid process.

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)