Search the Dictionary

See Trilingual.

One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.

Bilingualism. [R.] Earle.

der of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.

The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.

Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.

ior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.

Linguadental.

a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng…

ves. 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.

form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.

Same as Linguatulina.

The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

taining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

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.

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. Brande & C.

Situated under the tongue; sublingual.

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.