Linguiform: tongue-shaped: linear, with the extremities obtusely rounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

But the upper section of it, rough and tongue-shaped like a sock, could feed also.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

They have also a proboscis just like that of the fly; and the proboscis is tongue-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

They watched as he lifted the tongue-shaped glob of silly-putty and set it into his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [GIMME SOME SKIN • by Andrew E. Wheeler] Reference

It has long sleeves and a tongue-shaped opening for the head extending from the neck downward in front.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

Here was not one of the tongue-shaped craft such as had first met them in the city, but a gleaming globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Here was not one of the tongue-shaped craft such as had first met them in the city, but a gleaming glove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Flight]

The rims of the cans each had a neat tongue-shaped run of dried color where the paint had been poured out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running Blind]

“El-Zánah,” to the north; and a foreground of pale-yellow, stark-naked gypsum, apparently tongue-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

Rose walked along the bushes, trying to see through the thick tongue-shaped leaves to the base of the foundation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Assembly Required] Reference

The name has reference to the tongue-shaped muscular proboscis by which the animal works its way through the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Dr. Hardy called their attention to the contour of Manhattan Island, long and tongue-shaped, and running almost north and south.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference

Lightning is spoken of as her tongue and is described as being a reddish tongue-shaped stone that is flung by her at the guilty one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

Judas 'pieces of silver were thicker and tongue-shaped; the whole pieces were rounded at both ends and the half pieces at one end only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

Giant tongue-shaped formations seen in photographs of Mars now take on new significance: perhaps they are creeping, rock - covered glaciers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waterworld] Reference

The leaves of the rosettes are tongue-shaped, rough at the edges, fleshy, covered with glandular hairs, of a shining green colour, and slightly reflexed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

This was always kept seasoning until by natural shrinkage it had split up to the centre, when a tongue-shaped piece of box was fitted into the triangular vacancy and screwed firmly through.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

The leaves are ½in. to 3in. long, very narrow and tongue-shaped, sometimes obtuse and club-shaped; stout, dark green, with a greyish crust-like covering, and deeply dotted with bright spots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

A tongue-shaped grove ran down close to the edge of a narrow gulch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Four-Square] Reference

The tongue-shaped piece over the instep is of white fawnskin heavily ornamented in five colours of silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest] Reference

They employ their radula, a tongue-shaped structure with many tiny tooth-like projections to scrape food from surfaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

When it chooses a place to set up home, it pokes its tongue-shaped foot out of its shell and presses it against a solid surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Sea secrets - over 5,000 new marine species found] Reference

The specific name dracunculus is the Latin word meaning small dragon, or snake, probably in reference to the linear, tongue-shaped leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article Source] Reference

Saturnino Allende crouches beside a mountain path and gently puts his fingers around the stem of a plant with rough, tongue-shaped leaves.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

From the forward side of the first segment of the abdomen project two short, wide, tongue-shaped projections, the free extremities of which rest on the cymbals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

Two additional centers occasionally exist, one for the tongue-shaped process of the upper epiphysis, which forms the tuberosity, and one for the medial malleolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 6c. 5. The Tibia] Reference

The lingula (lingula cerebelli) is a small tongue-shaped process, consisting of four or five folia; it lies in front of the lobulus centralis, and is concealed by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

I've also tried their napoleones dessert lately, which turned out to be a version of cream puff using a giant otap (the Cebuano crispy sugar-encrusted tongue-shaped cookie).    From Wordnik.com.  [PANEM ET CIRCENSES] Reference

Following the usual interpretation of the parts, we find optic lobes (op. l.) as the roof of the mid-brain, and behind a very large, median, hollow, tongue-shaped cerebellum (c.b.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

To the tongue-shaped shell is attached a pedicle or stalk, attaining a length of ten inches, opaque and tough, which is broken off, seared over the fire, and eaten with apparent relish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

The lower end of the ala cinerea is crossed by a narrow translucent ridge, the funiculus separans, and between this funiculus and the clava, is a small tongue-shaped area, the area postrema.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

A tongue "-- alluding to a tongue-shaped island formerly at the mouth of Pasig River.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

214 A tongue-shaped piece of scarlet wool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew Literature] Reference