lingual

lingual
    adj 1: consisting of or related to language; "linguistic
           behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"
           [syn: {linguistic}, {lingual}] [ant: {nonlinguistic}]
    2: pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue;
       "lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the teeth"
    n 1: a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other
         speech organs
    

Lingual \Lin"gual\ (l[i^][ng]"gwal), a. [L. lingua tongue: cf.
   F. lingual. See {Tongue}, and cf. {Language}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the
      tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.
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   2. lying near the tongue; especially, in dentistry, on the
      surface of the tooth next to the tongue. Contrasted with
      {buccal}, the side of a tooth touching the cheek, i. e.
      the side opposite to the lingual side.
      [PJC]

   {Lingual ribbon}. (Zool.) See {Odontophore}.
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Lingual \Lin"gual\, n.
   A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term
   especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t,
   d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.
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   Note: In Sanskrit grammar certain letters, as [.t], [.t]h,
         [dsdot], [dsdot]h, [.n], are called linguals,
         cerebrals, or cacuminals. They are uttered with the tip
         of the tongue turned up and drawn back into the dome of
         the palate.
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123 Moby Thesaurus words for "lingual":
      accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
      articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
      cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant,
      consonantal, continuant, dental, descriptive, dissimilated, dorsal,
      enunciated, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
      glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, guttural, hard, heavy,
      high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax,
      lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, light, linguiform,
      linguistic, lingulate, liquid, low, metalinguistic, mid,
      monophthongal, morphological, morphophonemic, muted, narrow, nasal,
      nasalized, nuncupative, occlusive, open, oral, oxytone, palatal,
      palatalized, parol, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, philological,
      phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phonological, pitch, pitched,
      posttonic, pronounced, psycholinguistic, retroflex, rounded, said,
      semantic, semivowel, soft, sonant, sounded, speech, spoken,
      stopped, stressed, strong, structural, surd, syllabic, syntactic,
      tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonguelike, tonic, twangy,
      unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, unwritten, uttered, velar,
      verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalic, vocalized, vocoid, voiced,
      voiceful, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide