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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 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 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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