Lingual [adjective]

For 45 minutes, not the least effort in any lingual direction was made; no one said a word for three-quarters of an hour.

He was daily impressed with the lingual attainments of foreigners and his own lack of them.

Shell greyish, spire long and tapering to a point; 12210 teeth on its lingual ribbon.

They were bi-lingual, being in English and in coast Arabic, in which dialect Bones was something of a master.

In the limpets the lingual ribbon is proportionately long, and is easily removed for examination.

Radula, rad′ū-la, n. the tongue or lingual ribbon of a mollusc.

Every nation of Europe, I should think, is represented there—it is a sort of lingual congress in open session.

Volume of sound does not increase his lingual gifts, and spelling the article is likewise wasted effort.

The fifth cusp always appears in the middle of the heel, or between the posterior lingual and the posterior buccal.

This occurs in monkeys and other animals, but no record exists of the ancient anterior lingual reappearing.