Associations to the word «Uvula»

Wiktionary

UVULA, noun. (anatomy) The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.

Dictionary definition

UVULA, noun. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne