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sublingua

sublingua noun: a muscular secondary tongue found below the primary tongue in prosimian primates.

Noun

sublingua (plural sublinguae)

  1. A muscular secondary tongue found below the primary tongue in prosimian primates.

Forms of sublingua

pluralsublinguae

Origin of sublingua

Latin

Questions about sublingua

What does sublingua mean?
Sublingua means a muscular secondary tongue found below the primary tongue in prosimian primates.
What part of speech is sublingua?
Sublingua is a noun.
What is the plural of sublingua?
The plural of sublingua is sublinguae.

Words near sublingua in the dictionary

  1. sublineation
  2. sublineations
  3. sublineolate
  4. sublines
  5. subling
  6. sublingua
  7. sublinguae
  8. sublingual
  9. sublingual gland
  10. sublingual glands
  11. sublingually

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