The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tonguelet
Tonguelet \Tongue"let\, n. A little tongue.
Wiktionary
tonguelet
n. A little tongue.
Usage examples of "tonguelet".
Hers is dingy indigo and sulphur, with lurid smoky-green tonguelets like the petals of a sunflower.
The fernlike shapes of four tonguelets, two above and two below, suggested they were chemosensors, perhaps among other functions.
Fluids flow between them, both ways, driven by sphincters and the tonguelets, which must be centers of sensation.