androglossia | (noun) a woman's voice with male qualities | - |
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ankyloglossia | (noun) a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue | Synonyms: tongue tie |
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bugloss | (noun) perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers | Synonyms: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
gloss | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, glossiness, polish |
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(noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, semblance |
(noun) an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text | Synonyms: rubric |
(noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: glossary |
glossa | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, lingua, tongue |
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glossalgia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossodynia |
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glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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glossary | (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: gloss |
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glossina | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly |
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glossiness | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, gloss, polish |
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glossitis | (noun) inflammation of the tongue | - |
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glossodynia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossalgia |
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glossolalia | (noun) repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) | - |
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glossoptosis | (noun) abnormal downward or back placement of the tongue | - |
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glossy | (noun) a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper | - |
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(noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: slick, slick magazine |
heterogloss | (noun) the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. | Synonyms: isogloss |
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hypoglossal | (noun) supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles | Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve |
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isogloss | (noun) the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. | Synonyms: heterogloss |
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macroglossia | (noun) a congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue; often seen in cases of Down's syndrome | - |
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odontoglossum | (noun) any of numerous and diverse orchids of the genus Odontoglossum having racemes of few to many showy usually large flowers in many colors | - |
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salpiglossis | (noun) any plant of the genus Salpiglossis | - |
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semigloss | (noun) a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat | - |
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