Word Meanings - GLOSSA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
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- INSECTATOR
A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey. - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - LINGUATULIDA
See LINGUATULINA - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - LINGUADENTAL
An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth. - INSECTION
A cutting in; incisure; incision. - TONGUED
Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne. - TONGUE-TIED
1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak. - INSECTATION
The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More. - HYMENOPTERA
An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc. Note: They have four membranous wings, with few reticulations, and usually with a thickened, dark spot on the front edge of the anterior wings. In most - INSECTOLOGER
An entomologist. - TONGUE-PAD
A great talker. - INSECTIVORA
1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order - INSECTIVOROUS
Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to - TONGUE-SHAPED
Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf. - LINGUA
A tongue. A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue. - LINGUAL
Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore. - INSECTILE
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon. - LINGUA FRANCA
The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the language of the people of the region and foreign traders. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - SUBLINGUAL
Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland. Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia. - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - LONG-TONGUE
The wryneck. - PLEASANT-TONGUED
Of pleasing speech. - TRUMPET-TONGUED
Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. - FISSILINGUAL
Having the tongue forked. - TWO-TONGUED
Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys. - BILINGUAR
See BILINGUAL - TRILINGUAR
See TRILINGUAL - TRILINGUAL
Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages. The much-noted Rosetta stone . . . bears upon its surface a trilingual inscription. I. Taylor.