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Definition of Lingua
1. Noun. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
Generic synonyms: Organ, Articulator
Group relationships: Mouth, Oral Cavity, Oral Fissure, Rima Oris, Pharynx, Throat
Terms within: Gustatory Organ, Taste Bud, Tastebud
Derivative terms: Lingual, Lingual, Tongue, Tongue
Definition of Lingua
1. n. A tongue.
Definition of Lingua
1. the tongue or a tonguelike part [n -GUAE]
Medical Definition of Lingua
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lingua
Literary usage of Lingua
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"lingua utraque, ie Greek and Latin, H.—Of animals, the voice, note, song, ...
Fluency, eloquence, readiness of speech : quibus lingua prompta, ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"lingua apparelled in a crimson satin goum, a dressing of white roses, ... lingua,
AUDITUS. LIN. Nay,.good Auditus, do but hear me speak. ..."
3. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"... in lingua materna Anno domi-ni 1483°. ' 1 Here, in the MS. follow six blank
leaves, and on the seventh is written, in the same hand as the corrections ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"Vocabulario della lingua tigrigna. Intro- duzione e indice italiano-tigrigna del
Dott. Conti Rossini Carlo. Roma: Casa Editrice Italiana, 1896. xii, I 1., ..."
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