Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a tongue; lingulate: specifically, in entomology, said of processes or parts that are flat, somewhat linear, and rounded at the tip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of the tongue; tongue-shaped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective shaped like a
tongue
Etymologies
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From Latin lingua ("tongue") + -form.
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To this may be added that a constant current of fresh water passes beneath the carapace in a direction from behind forwards, maintained as in the adult animal, by a foliaceous or linguiform appendage of the second pair of maxillae (Figure 18).
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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