Word Type

Adjective

Noun

Adjective

The word "lingual" can be used as adjective, noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

alveolar dental glottal labial nasal palatal pharyngeal velar

Derived Terms

alveolingual alveololingual ambilingual anterolingual apicolingual audiolingual axiolingual bilingual brevilingual buccolingual cervicolingual colingual collingual crosslingual decalingual dentilingual distolingual dorsolingual equilingual exolingual faciolingual fissilingual gingivolingual hemilingual heptalingual heterolingual hexalingual homolingual hyolingual interlingual intralingual labiolingual laterolingual lingual artery lingual bone lingual gyrus lingual nerve lingual tonsil linguality lingualize lingually matrilingual mediolingual mesiolingual mesolingual metalingual metrolingual midlingual monolingual multilingual nonalingual octolingual omnilingual orolingual panlingual paralingual pentalingual perilingual plurilingual polylingual posterolingual postlingual prelingual protolingual quadrilingual quinquelingual retrolingual semilingual sesquilingual sublingual tetralingual translingual trilingual unilingual ventrolingual vestibulolingual

Context

dentistry phonetics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

consonant

Type Of (IsA)

consonant translingual

Related Terms

alveolar articulate dental glottal labial language linguistics nasal palatal pharyngeal tongue tooth velar

Synonym Network

glot linguistic tonguely

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