tongue-like

• “All gastropods feed by using a radula, which is a tongue-like structure covered by rows of rasping teeth.”

  Slugs and Snails

• “To wit: "Lumiere," an aluminum sofa with a tongue-like flame emanating from the seat, by Denis Santachiara.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Decorative and Beyond

• “They all produced different images in my mind: bronzed circles, silver strips, glistened steel, earth-colored ribbons with tongue-like edges.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Beautiful Miscellaneous

• “The Nero is the wider, more advanced version, while the slimmer Glide includes a roller ball to stroke the perineum ("almost tongue-like sensations," promises the brochure) and ribs at the base.”

  Wired: Sex Toy Expo Fun, Not Novel

• “The tettix or cicada, alone of such creatures (and, in fact, alone of all creatures), is unprovided with a mouth, but it is provided with the tongue-like formation found in insects furnished with frontward stings; and this formation in the cicada is long, continuous, and devoid of any split; and by the aid of this the creature feeds on dew, and on dew only, and in its stomach no excretion is ever found.”

  The History of Animals

• “The Crustacea also, both the Caraboid forms and the Crabs, are provided with teeth, namely their two anterior teeth; and between these they also present the tongue-like piece of flesh, as has indeed been already mentioned.”

  On the Parts of Animals

• “Again, as the gustatory sensibility is intended to serve animals in the selection of food, it is not diffused equally over the whole surface of the tongue-like organ, but is placed chiefly in the tip; and for this reason it is the tip which is the only part of the tongue separated in fishes from the rest of the mouth.”

  On the Parts of Animals

• “All the Testacea then, those that have not been mentioned as well as those that have, agree as stated in possessing a mouth with the tongue-like body, a stomach, and a vent for excrement, but they differ from each other in the positions and proportions of these parts.”

  On the Parts of Animals

• “From the gullet of the monster protruded a tongue-like member as thick as a human forearm, studded with rasps.”

  The Golden Torc

• “In the trumpet is a resounding cavity, and a tongue-like steel reed ten inches long, two and three-quarter inches wide, one inch thick at its fixed end, and half that at its free end.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885

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