Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a tongue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed like a tongue; strap-shaped; ligulate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like the tongue or a strap; ligulate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the shape of a
tongue
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a tongue
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin lingulātus, from lingula, diminutive of lingua, tongue; see lingua.]
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I also saw a beautiful species of Lupin, having pale green villous lingulate *
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