Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like a tongue: lingulate antennae.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Formed like a tongue; strap-shaped; ligulate.
Wiktionary
- adj. In the shape of a tongue
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shaped like the tongue or a strap; ligulate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. shaped like a tongue
Etymologies
- Latin lingulātus, from lingula, diminutive of lingua, tongue; see lingua. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I also saw a beautiful species of Lupin, having pale green villous lingulate *”
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trailingedge's list
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