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

The quality of being lingual.

Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv.

Quality of being bilingual. The bilingualism of King's English. Earle.

Having, or pertaining to, the same language.

A dentilingual sound or letter. The letters of this fourth, dentilingual or linguidental, class, viz., d, t, s, z, l, r. Am. Cyc.

Dentilingual.

Having the tongue forked.

Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland.

ressed in three languages. The much-noted Rosetta stone . . . bears upon its surface a trilingual inscription. I. Taylor.

See Bilingual.

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.

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.

of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

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.

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