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glossa

/ˈɡlɒsə/

glossa noun: the tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect.

Noun

glossa (plural glossae or glossas)

  1. The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect.
    • They wished to see what Holy would do with the glossa. “The innocent will tell no lies.” The organ eventually had been divided into nineteen sections, distributed, and ingested. “We swallow your lies and cause them to build our powers.”2016, Dr. Jol, Suburban Brand, Charlotte Publishing Press, →ISBN
    • Her swollen “button” hitting his glossa tip provided wave after wave of full body pleasure.2016, Dr. JD Philip, “The Wedding”, in Victoria: A Pirate Romance, Charlotte Publishing Press, →ISBN, page 230
  2. Unintelligible ecstatic speech.
    • This pattern does not hold in the glossas we have examined: [th] occurs where we expect [], as in the “word” kita in our sample text, and [] occurs freely in other American glossas as an independent sound unit,[…]1968, William J. Samarin, The Linguiticality of Glossolalia, page 64
    • I have analysed a total of 24 prophetic glossas in this way, and 10 passages of the more easily intelligible prayer specimens of glossolalia. These glossas emanate from a total of 15 persons.1975, Temenos, page 50

glossa meaning in Tamil and Kannada

glossa in Tamil

குஞ்சங்கள், திறணகள், வடிமுடிச்சுகள், நாவுருமுளை

glossa in Kannada

ನಾಲಿಗೆ, ನಾಲಗೆ

Examples of glossa in a sentence

  • It was his glossa, strange that; when dead men had no need to verbalize.2018, Gloria Trubbshore, Băṭluptă, Xlibris, →ISBN:
  • In the Paragiina, the proximal region of the glossa is elongated, and the paraglossae are long and reach the bifid apex of the glossa.2019, Harald W. Krenn, Insect Mouthparts: Form, Function, Development and Performance, page 452:
  • Although Samarin has examples of glossas from people who are not adherents to Christianity he does feel that occurences^([sic]) of glossolalia apart from Christian influences are rare.1976, Linguistics, page 87:
  • Thus significant differences exist between the glossas of different individuals: indeed, one person may have more than one distinctive glossa.2008, B. Ward Powers, “Excursus 4: Tongues-Speaking Today: A Comment”, in First Corinthians: An Exegetical and Explanatory Commentary; A...

Forms of glossa

pluralglossae
pluralglossas

Origin of glossa

From the Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue”). Doublet of gloss.

Words that rhyme with glossa

Questions about glossa

What does glossa mean?
Glossa means the tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect.
What is glossa in Tamil?
Glossa in Tamil is குஞ்சங்கள், திறணகள், வடிமுடிச்சுகள். See Glossa meaning in Tamil.
How do you use glossa in a sentence?
It was his glossa, strange that; when dead men had no need to verbalize.
What part of speech is glossa?
Glossa is a noun.
How do you pronounce glossa?
Glossa is pronounced /ˈɡlɒsə/.
What is the plural of glossa?
The plural of glossa is glossae.

Words near glossa in the dictionary

  1. gloss
  2. gloss over
  3. gloss paper
  4. gloss papers
  5. gloss-
  6. glossa
  7. glossae
  8. glossal
  9. glossalgia
  10. glossalgias
  11. glossanthrax

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glossa (page history and authors); glossa (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glossa (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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