Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

linguæform

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lin-guæ-form
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Obsolete form of linguiform.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"If folium semilanceolatum, and semiellipticum, defined to be more than the upper halves of those leaves transversely cut, were admissible, they would very happily express the exact shapes of the leaves of several species of Aloe, which are not linguæform, and much too broad at the base to call subulate, and too much truncated there to call lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate."
"The liver is linguæform, lies on the right side, with a small lobe on the left, and has a reddish-orange colour."
"Septæ deeply sinuous; dorsal lobe cleft by a profound linguæform sinus with a broad base, into two narrow, elongated branches, which are not as wide as the sinus between, and which are gently expanded in the middle and narrowed to an acute point at their extremities by an oblique truncature of their inner margins; […]"

Etymology

With alteration after Classical Latin linguae, the genitive singular of lingua (“tongue”).

Word Breakdown

Root: linguae

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more linguæform (comparative) most linguæform (superlative)

Questions

What does linguæform mean?: Obsolete form of linguiform.
Where does linguæform come from?: With alteration after Classical Latin linguae, the genitive singular of lingua (“tongue”).

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