Definition of "lingua" []

• A tongue or tonguelike organ. (noun)

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• "The Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d'oc."
• "Hoc cognoscentes, ponebant custodiam ori suo, ut non delinquerent in lingua sua; ideoque concaluit cor earum intra eas, et 'in meditacione earum exarsit ignis (Ps. XXXVIII, 4) ille Dominus Deus noster, consumens omnem rubiginem uiciorum."
• "If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra."