Associations to the word «Lingula»

Wiktionary

LINGULA, noun. (anatomy) Any of several tongue-shaped bony structures, especially that which forms the anterior border of the mandibular foramen.
LINGULA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Lingulidae   — certain intertidal brachiopods from the Tertiary (and perhaps Cretaceous) to the present.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope