Definition of lingual

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Lingual (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter..

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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.
Dentilingual :: Dentilingual (n.) A dentilingual sound or letter.
Diglottism :: Diglottism (n.) Bilingualism.
Trilingual :: Trilingual (a.) Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages..
Lingual :: Lingual (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter..
Odontophore :: Odontophore (n.) A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula..
Linguadental :: Linguadental (a.) Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t..
Linguality :: Linguality (n.) The quality of being lingual.
Sublition :: Sublingual (a.) Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia..
Ro-setta Stone :: Ro-setta stone () A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt..
Glossal :: Glossal (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
Cerebral :: Cerebral (n.) One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n..
Bilingual :: Bilingual (a.) Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary..
Dentilingual :: Dentilingual (a.) Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed.
Bilinguar :: Bilinguar (a.) See Bilingual.
Fissilingual :: Fissilingual (a.) Having the tongue forked.
Trilinguar :: Trilinguar (a.) See Trilingual.
Subglottic :: Subglossal (a.) Situated under the tongue; sublingual.
Rhipidoglossa :: Rhipidoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix..
Radula :: Radula (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore..
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