Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Anatomy The tongue.
- noun Zoology A tonguelike structure in the labium of an insect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the tongue.
- noun In entomology, an appendage of the ligula, situated at its tip, which may be median and single or paired with a fellow, and may be placed between lateral paraglossæ. See cut under
mouth-part .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See
hymenoptera .
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- noun zoology The
tongue , orlingua , of aninsect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Etymologies
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And it is in this last sense that Christian writers have principally employed the word glossa, gloss, in connexion with Holy Writ.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In the course of time Greek grammarians, commenting on the works of Greek authors, used the word glossa to designate first a word of the text which needed some explanation, and next the explanation itself.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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"glossa" and "tongue": corresponds to the united laciniae of right and left maxillae: see also elytral ligula.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Ekana tin apofasi na sou leo afto sta ellinika yiati ti glossa mas mitriki kai aftes tis glosses pou mathenoume meta einai ti kentriki ‘fleva’ na katalavanoume tin istoria mas kai ti sxesi pou exoume me to kosmo mas!
Guest post 2 – growing up in Canada « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009
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The flourishing of your Congregation will be guaranteed by fidelity to the Gospel lived "sine glossa" and to your Rule of Life, particularly an austere way of life and Gospel poverty practised consistently, with faithful love for the Church and the generous gift of yourselves to youth, especially the neediest and most disadvantaged.
Archive 2008-04-06 papabear 2008
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But Dahlbeck had been the semanticist who finally saw enough of the basic structure of the Nyarran glossa that he could know how to go about developing an Esperanto for the two races ....
Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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Walafrid Strabo (809-849), student of Hrabanus Maurus and of Grimald, was a very learned man (even if not the author of the glossa ordinaria), teacher of Charles the Bald, and in the end abbot of Reichenau.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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But Dahlbeck had been the semanticist who finally saw enough of the basic structure of the Nyarran glossa that he could know how to go about developing an Esperanto for the two races ....
Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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Lingua spiralis: the spiral tongue of Lepidoptera: see glossa.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Median lobe: of labium in Odonata, is the partly divided glossa or ligula; probably corresponds to united glossa and paraglossae (Butler).
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
missanthropist commented on the word glossa
Greek Tongue.
July 16, 2008