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Hound''s-tongue :: Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue..

Bird''s-tongue :: Bird's-tongue (n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

Glossohyal :: Glossohyal (a.) Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.

Worm :: Worm (n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta..

Outtongue :: Outtongue (v. t.) To silence by talk, clamor, or noise..

Double-tongue :: Double-tongue (n.) Deceit; duplicity.

Linguadental :: Linguadental (n.) An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.

Sublingual :: Sublingual (a.) Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland..

Lingula :: Lingula (n.) A tonguelike process or part.

Glossopharyngeal :: Glossopharyngeal (a.) Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves..

Sea Ginger :: Sea ginger () A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore..

Tang :: Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.

Lick :: Lick (v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking.

Tongue-tied :: Tongue-tied (a.) Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause..

Tongue :: Tongue (v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together..

Glossa :: Glossa (n.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13..

Hellenist :: Hellenist (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1)..

Vermilinguia :: Vermilinguia (n. pl.) A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues..

Glossoepiglottic :: Glossoepiglottic (a.) Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds..

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