 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lingual
adjective
1: consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior";
"a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" [syn: {linguistic}]
[ant: {nonlinguistic}]
2: pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue;
"lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the teeth"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lingual \Lin"gual\ (l[i^][ng]"gwal), adjective [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.
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}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Odontophore}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lingual \Lin"gual\, noun
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.
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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