Crossword clues for lingual
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lingual \Lin"gual\ (l[i^][ng]"gwal), a. [L. lingua tongue: cf. F. lingual. See Tongue, and cf. Language.]
Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.
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lying near the tongue; especially, in dentistry, on the surface of the tooth next to the tongue. Contrasted with buccal, the side of a tooth touching the cheek, i. e. the side opposite to the lingual side.
Lingual ribbon. (Zo["o]l.) See Odontophore.
Lingual \Lin"gual\, n. A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.
Note: In Sanskrit grammar certain letters, as [.t], [.t]h, [dsdot], [dsdot]h, [.n], are called linguals, cerebrals, or cacuminals. They are uttered with the tip of the tongue turned up and drawn back into the dome of the palate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Medieval Latin lingualis "of the tongue," from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language," from Old Latin dingua, from PIE *dnghu- "tongue" (cognates: Old English tunge, Gothic tuggo "tongue;" see tongue). Altered in Latin probably in part by association with lingere "to lick."
Wiktionary
a. 1 Related to the tongue. 2 Related to language or linguistics. 3 (context phonetics English) articulated with the tongue 4 (context dentistry English) Of a lower tooth, on the side facing the tongue. See mesial. n. (context phonetics English) a sound articulated with the tongue
WordNet
adj. consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" [syn: linguistic] [ant: nonlinguistic]
pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue; "lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the teeth"
Wikipedia
Lingual may refer to:
- Tongue, a muscular hydrostat on the floors of the mouths of most vertebrates which manipulates food for mastication
- Lingual, in palaeontology, the side of the teeth that faces the tongue
- Lingual artery, arises from the external carotid between the superior thyroid and facial artery
- Lingual veins, begin on the dorsum, sides, and under surface of the tongue, and, passing backward along the course of the lingual artery, end in the internal jugular vein
- Lingual gyrus, of the occipital lobe lies between the calcarine sulcus and the posterior part of the collateral sulcus
- Lingual bone
- Lingual nerve, a branch of the mandibular nerve
- HTLINGUAL
Usage examples of "lingual".
Peter felt heat on his face when he saw that several of the women lay on their bellies between the legs of pink men, each with a cock in her mouth, but eyes turned up to the school lesson -- except for one or two who lay reversed atop pink men, also mouthing cocks and presumably enjoying lingual play in their own thighs.
Male mouths, many bearded, were often shown in contact with female orifices and breasts, but the angles and lighting were always such that he found no evidence of unusual lingual capability.
What he asked, instead, after a lacerating lingual nip, was a question about the role and features of the Pachomian Order.
Krishaber speaks of a case of lingual menstruation at the epoch of menstruation.
They lie in the orgy for weeks, enduring thousands upon thousands of lingual insertions, but never notice from whence those tongues sprout.