Word.ws English Dictionary

glossoepiglottic

glossoepiglottic adjective: pertaining to the tongue and epiglottis.

Adjective

glossoepiglottic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the tongue and epiglottis.
    • glossoepiglottic folds
    • glossoepiglottic fossae

Synonyms of glossoepiglottic

Origin of glossoepiglottic

From glosso- + epiglottic.

Questions about glossoepiglottic

What does glossoepiglottic mean?
Glossoepiglottic means pertaining to the tongue and epiglottis.
What part of speech is glossoepiglottic?
Glossoepiglottic is an adjective.

Words near glossoepiglottic in the dictionary

  1. glossocele
  2. glossocoma
  3. glossocomon
  4. Glossodia
  5. glossodynia
  6. glossoepiglottic
  7. glossoepiglottidean
  8. glossogenesis
  9. glossogenetic
  10. glossogenetics
  11. glossograph

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glossoepiglottic (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “glossoepiglottic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glossoepiglottic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.