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lingulae

lingulae is the plural of lingula.

Meaning of lingula

Noun

lingula (plural lingulas or lingulae)

  1. (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 5/12 Roman ounce of wine, equivalent to about 11 mL.
  2. Any of several tongue-shaped bony structures, especially that which forms the anterior border of the mandibular foramen.
  3. Any small, fleshy tongue-shaped structure, such as in the anatomy of the brain or the human left lung, or in the whitefly vasiform orifice.

Questions about lingulae

What is lingulae the plural of?
Lingulae is the plural of lingula.

Words near lingulae in the dictionary

  1. linguistry
  2. linguists
  3. linguiça
  4. linguiças
  5. lingula
  6. lingulae
  7. lingular
  8. lingulate
  9. lingulated
  10. lingulately
  11. lingulid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lingulae (page history and authors); lingula (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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