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noun Veterinary Pathology.
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Origin of wooden tongue

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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How to use wooden tongue in a sentence

  • His sled had a wooden tongue in it and it slanted back over the girls' heads.

    The Golden Road|Lucy Maud Montgomery

British Dictionary definitions for wooden tongue

wooden tongue

woody tongue


noun
vet science the nontechnical name for actinobacillosis
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