Definitions For Languette

Noun

LANGUETTE (plural LANGUETTEs) Alternate form of languet A tongue-shaped implement. {{quote-book, en, year=1854, title=The United Service Magazine, page=98, passage=The languette, or plate, is fixed between the two rows of caps, one of its extremities upon the two right-hand caps, the other extending on the left beyond the base of the rectangle.}} {{quote-book, en, year=1985, title=Symbols of Power: At the Time of Stonehenge, author=D. V. Clarke, Trevor G. Cowie, & Andrew Foxon, page=308, ISBN=0114924554, passage=Bronze sword. The curved heel has a small central languette or tongue.}} A tongue-like organ found on tunicates. {{quote-book, en, year=1892, title=Annals & Magazine of Natural History , page=483, passage=This naturalist believes that the apparatus by the aid of which the act is performed is the series of dorsal languettes or the organs which represent them.}} {{quote-book, en, year=1962, title=Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, page=1, passage=The wing-like opisthohaptor, bearing two rows of clamps placed end to end and separated by an anchorbearing lobe or languette -- in effect forming a straight angle -- is distinctive.}} {{quote-book, en, year=1968, title=The Trematoda, author=Dawes, page=179, ISBN=0521072190, passage=Opisthaptor: four pairs of pedunculate suckers (cup-like and with circular or oval apertures) and a terminal languette 0.11 mm. long and 0.03 mm. broad.}} {{synonym of, en, lingula}} bony tongue-shaped structure on the mandible {{quote-book, en, year=1834, title=Entomologia Edinensis, author=James Wilson & James Duncan, passage=At the root of the languette, and a little below the middle of the interior space which intervenes between the mandibles, is placed the pharynx.}} {{quote-book, en, year=1853, title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica, passage=The languette, at first very small, as in the genus Atypus, afterwards becomes elongated and advanced between the jaws. }} fleshy tongue-shaped structure {{quote-book, en, year=1865, title=The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London, passage=Lastly, the stem of each auditory hair presents a sort of appendage (the languette), to which the nerve of the hair is attached.}} {{quote-book, en, year=1973, title=The palmar fascia, author=H. Graham Stack, page=51, passage=Proximally to the ligament this exposes the languette of the palmar fascia. Some of the fibres of this languette which pierce the subcutaneous layer system are demonstrated.}} {{quote-book, en, year=1974, title=The interpretation of early music , author=Robert Donington, page=518, passage=It is a certainty that the windpipe of the larynx (l'anche du larynx), that is to say the little tongue (languette) or its opening, contributes more directly to the [performance of florid] passages and divisions than the other parts, in as much as it has to mark the degrees and the intervals which are made in sustaining the passage; which can only occur from the different openings of the little tongue (languette), as I have shown in speaking of low and high sound.}} A tongue-shaped design used to decorate ancient greek pottery. A type of decorative hood used on a woman's bodice in the seventeenth century. The tongue of a reed on a harmonium. An elongated samara that occurs alone. A valve flap associated with the byssus of a mollusk.