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adj. - Resembling a muscle in the mouth in form or function.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Noun : No tongue must ever tell the secret. ,a sight no tongue can describe. ,a flattering tongue. ,the Hebrew tongue
  • She could see the beige tonguelike ribbon sticking out of the bottom, and the gentle crease etched along its spine.
  • From the palm of the thing's handlike body emerges a pearl-escent TUBULE. like a tapered piece of intestine, which slithers tonguelike over the inside of the glass.
  • 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...
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