lingua

IPA: ɫˈɪŋgwʌ

(anatomy) Synonym of tongue.
(entomology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

Examples of "lingua" in Sentences

The Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d'oc.
Whatever audience they target, they speak a lingua franca of anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-American hatred-all in the name of Allah.
If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra.
Whatever audience they target, they speak a lingua franca of anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-American hatred racists such as al-Mansour constitute a significant proportion of these hate mongers?
Hoc cognoscentes, ponebant custodiam ori suo, ut non delinquerent in lingua sua; ideoque concaluit cor earum intra eas, et 'in meditacione earum exarsit ignis (Ps. XXXVIII, 4) ille Dominus Deus noster, consumens omnem rubiginem uiciorum.
While he leans decidedly toward the descriptivist camp, he believes experts ought to acknowledge the public's need for guidance on how to speak and write standard English -- that is, the lingua franca of official, public and commercial life in the English-speaking world.