About The Word Lingual
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Lingual
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What's The Definition Of Lingual?
[adj] pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue; "lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the teeth"
[adj] consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" Synonyms | Synonyms for Lingual: linguistic Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Lingual In Webster's Dictionary \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.
{Lingual ribbon}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Odontophore}.
\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. |
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