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Tongue-shaped   Listen
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Tongue-shaped  adj.  Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.






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"Tongue-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the cartilage of the brain case, and the pituitary body is relatively very large, and has lateral vascular lobes on either side. Following the usual interpretation of the parts, we find optic lobes (op.l.) as the roof of the mid-brain, and behind a very large, median, hollow, tongue-shaped cerebellum (c.b.). The medulla is large, and certain lateral restiform tracts (r.t.) therein, which also occur in the higher types, are here ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Tongue-shaped" :   lingulate



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