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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
zygoma is a noun meaning "the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone". It carries one recorded sense.
the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zygoma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.