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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Situated beneath or on the underside of the tongue.
  • noun A sublingual part, such as a gland, artery, or duct.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated under the tongue, or on the under side of the tongue; hypoglossal: specifying various structures. Also subglossal.
  • Of or pertaining to the sublingua.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Situated under the tongue.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Beneath the tongue

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective beneath the tongue

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ lingual

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