: a tongue or an organ resembling a tongue
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For one thing, linguine — long, lithe, dinner-level satisfying — comes from the Italian word lingua, which means tongue.
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Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
Ubisoft consulted with native Welsh speakers, 13th-century Icelandic texts, and Gaelic scholars to create the game's lingua-scape. Save this story for later.
—Amy Briscoe, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
Periwinkle snails infected with the trematode species Cryptocotyle lingua, for instance, eat significantly less algae along their Atlantic coast homes, because the parasite weakens their digestive tracts.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2017
Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
Ubisoft consulted with native Welsh speakers, 13th-century Icelandic texts, and Gaelic scholars to create the game's lingua-scape. Save this story for later.
—Amy Briscoe, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
Periwinkle snails infected with the trematode species Cryptocotyle lingua, for instance, eat significantly less algae along their Atlantic coast homes, because the parasite weakens their digestive tracts.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2017
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“Lingua.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lingua. Accessed 9 Dec. 2023.
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