lingula

[ ling-gyuh-luh ]

/ ˈlɪŋ gyə lə /

a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.

Nearby words

1655–65; < New Latin, Latin lingula, diminutive of lingua tongue; cf. ligula

lin·gu·lar, adjective

The genus Lingula (Mollusca) has also come down from remotest ages, having outlived all its earlier associates.
Geology|James Geikie
The Buglossus solea or soale plana and oculata as also the Lingula or small soale all in very great plentie.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne|Thomas Browne
In addition to the printed species, an anomalous Pinna, which I doubt not was the Lingula anatina, is here described.
The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4|Various
Having minute hairs as in Orbicula, Lingula, &c. and the jointed feelers of the Cirripedes.
A Conchological Manual|George Brettingham Sowerby

In invertebrates, for example, a lingula from the Cambrian has reached a definite point of development from some earlier ancestor.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899|Various