glossa
/ˈɡlɒsə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.47 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect.
noun
Example Sentences
- "They wished to see what Holy would do with the glossa. “The innocent will tell no lies.” The organ eventually had been divided into nineteen sections, distributed, and ingested. “We swallow your lies and cause them to build our powers.”"
- "Her swollen “button” hitting his glossa tip provided wave after wave of full body pleasure."
- "It was his glossa, strange that; when dead men had no need to verbalize."
- "In the Paragiina, the proximal region of the glossa is elongated, and the paraglossae are long and reach the bifid apex of the glossa."
- "This pattern does not hold in the glossas we have examined: [th] occurs where we expect [], as in the “word” kita in our sample text, and [] occurs freely in other American glossas as an independent sound unit,[…]"
- "I have analysed a total of 24 prophetic glossas in this way, and 10 passages of the more easily intelligible prayer specimens of glossolalia. These glossas emanate from a total of 15 persons."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: γλῶσσᾰ