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lingula [ling-gyuh-luh] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural lin·gu·lae [ling-gyuh-lee] /ˈlɪŋ gyəˌli/.
- a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
Origin of lingula 1655–65; New Latin, Latin lingula, diminutive of lingua tongue; cf. ligula Related formslin·gu·lar, adjective Examples from the Web for lingula Historical Examples of lingula
The name also, which originally was lingula, gives an idea of the form.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume II (of 2)
Johann Beckman
Another fossil characteristic of these ancient rocks is the Lingula.
Louis Figuier
The Buglossus solea or soale plana & oculata as also the Lingula or small soale all in very great plentie.
Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk
Thomas Browne
The genus Lingula (Mollusca) has also come down from remotest ages, having outlived all its earlier associates.
James Geikie
The ancient Lingula, along with Crania and Orbiculoidea, occur among the inarticulate forms.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3
Various
lingula in Medicine lingula [lĭng′gyə-lə] n. pl. -lae (-lē′)
- Any of several tongue-shaped processes.