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glossae

glossae is the plural of glossa.

Meaning of glossa

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
  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

Questions about glossae

What is glossae the plural of?
Glossae is the plural of glossa.

Words near glossae in the dictionary

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

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