linguaform
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Uncommon form of linguiform (“shaped like a tongue”).
Example Sentences
- "[T]ail linguaform, with angular oval soft scales, and hairs sparingly interspersed in their intestices; […]"
- "The albumen-gland resembles that of the snail; it is, however, less compact, and more linguaform than boat-shaped, and is usually of a yellowish-white aspect both externally and within; […]"
- "Spores linguaform, erect, plane, cellular."
- "The anterior end of the body is linguaform with 2 relatively long glandular zones into which numerous cephalic glands open."
- "Second, [Stephen] Kosslyn thinks that the representations constructed in visual imagination are syntactically and semantically pictorial, rather than linguaform."
- "I also stress the pre-reflective and pre-conscious nature of many aspects of this reciprocity, which means that some of these relations are sensed without us necessarily being aware of them, as a result of their embedding in all kinds of habitual and ‘learned’ cognitive skills, including our own ability to move, that are practical in nature, not linguaform or conceptual, and not based on inferential aspects of perception itself."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more linguaform (comparative)
most linguaform (superlative)