languette

Alternative form of languet.

The languette, or plate, is fixed between the two rows of caps, one of its extremities upon the two right-hand caps, the other extending on the left beyond the base of the rectangle.

Bronze sword. The curved heel has a small central languette or tongue.

Alternative form of languet.

This naturalist believes that the apparatus by the aid of which the act is performed is the series of dorsal languettes or the organs which represent them.

The wing-like opisthohaptor, bearing two rows of clamps placed end to end and separated by an anchorbearing lobe or languette -- in effect forming a straight angle -- is distinctive.

Synonym of lingula.

At the root of the languette, and a little below the middle of the interior space which intervenes between the mandibles, is placed the pharynx.

The languette, at first very small, as in the genus Atypus, afterwards becomes elongated and advanced between the jaws.

Synonym of lingula.

Lastly, the stem of each auditory hair presents a sort of appendage (the languette), to which the nerve of the hair is attached.

Proximally to the ligament this exposes the languette of the palmar fascia. Some of the fibres of this languette which pierce the subcutaneous layer system are demonstrated.

A tongue-shaped design used to decorate Ancient Greek pottery.

The foregoing analysis suggests that smaller dimensions and decoration with languettes are characteristic of hydrias in our assemblage, though neither criterion need be applicable in other regions or even in other PG periods at Lefkandi. (41)

It has a spherical body, and is decorated at top and bottom with languettes, or 'tongue' ornament.