Lingual \Lin"gual\ (l[i^][ng]"gwal), a. [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.
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   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.
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   Lingual ribbon. (Zool.) See Odontophore.
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	Lingual \Lin"gual\, n.
   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.
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   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.
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	lingual
     adj 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"

	

	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