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Definition of Tongue-shaped
1. Adjective. Shaped like a tongue.
Medical Definition of Tongue-shaped
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tongue-shaped
Literary usage of Tongue-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lv». tongue-shaped, irith one margin thicker than the other, of tu-o or more forms,
... Lvs. unequally tongue-shaped, deflexed and somewhat falcate, ..."
2. A Synopsis of the Family Unionidae by Isaac Lea (1870)
"tongue-shaped, thick; some- what produced anteriorly. Produced and widened into
a knob. 3 The genera Unto and Anodonta are described exactly the same ! ..."
3. Handbook of Geological Terms, Geology and Physical Geography by David Page (1865)
"... a, urn; marked with little lines. lingua; the tongue ; tongue-like. lingua-bt-eis;
ox-tongue ; shaped like an ox's tongue. ..."
4. The Stone Implements of South Africa by James Paul Johnson (1908)
"Another characteristic, though comparatively rare, type is the almond-shaped
implement, which resembles the average tongue- shaped implement, ..."
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