TONGUE
\tˈʌŋ], \tˈʌŋ], \t_ˈʌ_ŋ]\
Definitions of TONGUE
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Muscular organ in the mouth used in speech and tasting; speech; language; anything like a tongue; point of land.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An organ on the floor of the mouth, usually movable and protrusible ; any tongue-like structure, as a radula, a ligula.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A muscular mass attached to the floor of the mouth and susceptible of protrusion from that cavity. It takes part in sucking, mastication, and articular speech, and the mucous membrane covering its upper surface is the seat of the organs of taste.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic, Latin] A muscular organ attached by one end to the floor of the mouth, serving as the instrument of taste, and in man of articulation also ;-hence, speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech;-a language; -words or declarations only;-a nation, as distinguished by language ;-a point ; a projection ; catch of a buckle; point of a balance;-a narrow strip, as of Iand stretching into the sea or a lake;-any tapering part or point.
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