glossa
noun
the tongue.
glossa
1 American
[glos-uh, glaw-suh]
/ ˈglɒs ə, ˈglɔ sə /
noun
glossae,
plural
glossas
plural
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Anatomy. the tongue.
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Entomology. one of a pair of median, sometimes fused lobes of the labium of an insect.
Glossa
2
American
[glaw-suh]
/ ˈglɔ sə /
noun
glossa
British
/ ˈɡlɒsə /
noun
-
anatomy a technical word for the tongue
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a paired tonguelike lobe in the labium of an insect
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Etymology
Origin of glossa
First recorded in 1885–90, glossa is from the Greek word glôssa tongue
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Dondeus says this interpretation is clearly proved by the authority of a glossa in the chapter: Ex litterarum.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
For in the text, when these words are used: "your wife taken in adultery," a glossa explains the word "taken" as equal to "convicted."
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
Flabellum: a fan: a leafed structure: the transparent lobe at the end of the glossa in bees: also used as = flagellum; q.v.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The so-called glossa ordinaria had in Luther's time an authority almost equal to that of the corpus juris itself.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin
The verb to gloss, or gloze, means simply to explain or translate, from Greco-Lat. glossa, tongue; but, under the influence of the unrelated gloss, superficial lustre, it has acquired the sense of specious interpretation.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
Upper Glossa was both more somber and more enveloping.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2018
Caterina Barbieri, an Italian composer based in Berlin, performed solo and in Upper Glossa, her duo with Kali Malone.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2018
Her series of recordings for the Glossa label has resurrected music by Gottlieb Muffat,Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, Georg Böhm, Giovanni Battista Somis and Richard Jones — none of them exactly household names.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016
The performances are, as one might expect, ravishing, but both sentiments and soundworld are more conventional here than in its masculine equivalent: the latter, recorded in 2010, is also available on Glossa.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2013
It is protected by the island of Saseno, the ancient Saso, and by Cape Glossa, the northernmost headland of the Acroceraunian mountains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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