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n. - A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.

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  • In the course of time Greek grammarians, commenting on the works of Greek authors, used the word glossa to designate first a word of the text which needed some...
  • "glossa" and "tongue": corresponds to the united laciniae of right and left maxillae: see also elytral ligula.
  • Lingua spiralis: the spiral tongue of Lepidoptera: see glossa.
  • But Dahlbeck had been the semanticist who finally saw enough of the basic structure of the Nyarran glossa that he could know how to go about developing an Esperanto for...
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