Word Meanings - GLOSSA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.

Related words: (words related to GLOSSA)

• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• LINGUATULIDA
  See LINGUATULINA
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• LINGUADENTAL
  An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• TONGUE-TIED
  1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• HYMENOPTERA
  An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc. Note: They have four membranous wings, with few reticulations, and usually with a thickened, dark spot on the front edge of the anterior wings. In most
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• TONGUE-PAD
  A great talker.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• TONGUE-SHAPED
  Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
• LINGUA
  A tongue. A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
• LINGUAL
  Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore.
• INSECTILE
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
• LINGUA FRANCA
  The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the language of the people of the region and foreign traders.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SUBLINGUAL
  Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland. Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• FISSILINGUAL
  Having the tongue forked.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
• BILINGUAR
  See BILINGUAL
• TRILINGUAR
  See TRILINGUAL
• TRILINGUAL
  Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages. The much-noted Rosetta stone . . . bears upon its surface a trilingual inscription. I. Taylor.