tongueletn.
/ˈtʌŋlɪt/ A little tongue or tongue-like object: spec. (a) (Entomology) = ligula n. 1b; (b) = tongue-worm n. (b) at tongue n. Compounds 2: see ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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1840 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (1842) 384 The Linguetta laminosa is a thin tonguelet of grey substance, marked by transverse furrows, which extend forwards..from the grey substance of the cerebellum.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 529 The tonguelet consists of two small hairy setæ, extending beyond the large horny mentum.
1866 J. K. Lord in Intellectual Observer No. 48. 431 In this tube is the tonguelet [of a Cicada].
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic v I shall not sulk If yonder greenish tonguelet [of flame] licked from brass Its life.
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