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Definition of Lingulae
1. lingula [n] - See also: lingula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lingulae
Literary usage of Lingulae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Earth and Man by John William Dawson (1873)
"The exception in the case of lingulae is in the other direction. It gives to
these humble creatures the same material for their hard parts which is usually ..."
2. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1859)
"The occurrence of such vast numbers of lingulae in this rock renders extremely
interesting and significant the late discovery of Mr. T. STERRY HUNT, ..."
3. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"... present the following parts of the lobus superior : WORM HEMISPHERE Lingula
Vinculum lingulae ... lingulae extend toward the middle cerebral peduncle. ..."
4. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"The lingulae Interparietal portion membrane) FIG. 146.—THE OCCIPITAL AT BIRTH.
(develops in- The interparietal and supra-occipital portions form the ..."
5. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley (1903)
"lingulae, however, are anything but the lowest in the scale of organization of
their class ; they have a well-developed intestine and well developed hearts, ..."
6. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1870)
"After nearly a week's fruitless search, lingulae were found in a sand shoal, left
at low tide. They were found buried in the ..."
7. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1905)
"These lingulae are associated with numerous minute irregularly rounded black
grains resembling those " phosphatic nodules" described by T. Sterry Hunt from ..."
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