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LINGUA (linguae)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lingua mean?
• LINGUA (noun)
The noun LINGUA has 1 sense:
1. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Familiarity information: LINGUA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
clapper; glossa; lingua; tongue
Hypernyms ("lingua" is a kind of...):
organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)
articulator (a movable speech organ)
Meronyms (parts of "lingua"):
gustatory organ; taste bud; tastebud (an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue)
Holonyms ("lingua" is a part of...):
mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris (the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge)
pharynx; throat (the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone)
Derivation:
lingual (pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue)
lingual (consisting of or related to language)
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