Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Formed like a tongue; linguiform; ligulate; strap-shaped; in botany, long and nearly flat, somewhat fleshy, and rounded at the apex: as, a tongue-shaped leaf.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective shaped like a tongue

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Examples

  • Saturnino Allende crouches beside a mountain path and gently puts his fingers around the stem of a plant with rough, tongue-shaped leaves.

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  • They watched as he lifted the tongue-shaped glob of silly-putty and set it into his mouth.

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  • Rose walked along the bushes, trying to see through the thick tongue-shaped leaves to the base of the foundation.

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  • Giant tongue-shaped formations seen in photographs of Mars now take on new significance: perhaps they are creeping, rock - covered glaciers.

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  • They employ their radula, a tongue-shaped structure with many tiny tooth-like projections to scrape food from surfaces.

    Mollusca 2007

  • The dark green tongue-shaped wedge of each tree against the twilight.

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  • The dark green tongue-shaped wedge of each tree against the twilight.

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  • To the tongue-shaped shell is attached a pedicle or stalk, attaining a length of ten inches, opaque and tough, which is broken off, seared over the fire, and eaten with apparent relish.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • “El-Zánah,” to the north; and a foreground of pale-yellow, stark-naked gypsum, apparently tongue-shaped.

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  • The smith lifted with the tongs the black, flat, tongue-shaped piece of metal, and Ramón looked at it a long time.

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