Definition of "tonguelike" []

• Resembling a tongue or some aspect of one. (adjective)

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• "She could see the beige tonguelike ribbon sticking out of the bottom, and the gentle crease etched along its spine."
• "Though they are not quite as extensive as they once were, you can still find spruce-fir and pine forests in New England, in the Lake States, and in a tonguelike extension along the Appalachian range."
• "Her 1926 version was an elegant rendering of tonguelike, velvety, purplish-gray petals uncurling into “an abyss of blackness into which the timid scarcely dare peer,” teased Henry McBride."