Define the word Lingual"Lingual" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lingual \Lin"gual\ (l[i^][ng]"gwal), a. [L. lingua tongue: cf.
F. lingual. See Tongue, and cf. Language.]
1. 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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2. 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.
[PJC]
Lingual ribbon. (Zool.) See Odontophore.
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"Lingual" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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.
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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.
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"lingual" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
lingual
adj 1: consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior";
"a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" [syn: linguistic]
[ant: nonlinguistic]
2: pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue;
"lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the teeth"
"lingual" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "lingual":
accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant,
consonantal, continuant, dental, descriptive, dissimilated, dorsal,
enunciated, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, guttural, hard, heavy,
high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax,
lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, light, linguiform,
linguistic, lingulate, liquid, low, metalinguistic, mid,
monophthongal, morphological, morphophonemic, muted, narrow, nasal,
nasalized, nuncupative, occlusive, open, oral, oxytone, palatal,
palatalized, parol, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, philological,
phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phonological, pitch, pitched,
posttonic, pronounced, psycholinguistic, retroflex, rounded, said,
semantic, semivowel, soft, sonant, sounded, speech, spoken,
stopped, stressed, strong, structural, surd, syllabic, syntactic,
tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonguelike, tonic, twangy,
unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, unwritten, uttered, velar,
verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalic, vocalized, vocoid, voiced,
voiceful, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
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