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- New Latin · borrowed fromlinguālis
- English todaylingualis
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin linguālis, ellipsis of mūsculus linguālis (“lingual muscle”). Doublet of lingual.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lingualis
Today it means: A longitudinal band of muscular fibres, situated on the undersurface of the tongue, lying in the interval between the hyoglossus and the geniohyoglossus, and extending from the base to the apex of the organ. Full definition →
New Latin linguālis