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glossa
1[glos-uh, glaw-suh]
noun
plural
glossae, glossasAnatomy.the tongue.
Entomology.one of a pair of median, sometimes fused lobes of the labium of an insect.
Glossa
2[glaw-suh]
noun
Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
glossa
/ ˈɡɒə /
noun
anatomy a technical word for the tongue
a paired tonguelike lobe in the labium of an insect
Other 51Թ Forms
- ˈDz adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of glossa1
Example Sentences
The verb to gloss, or gloze, means simply to explain or translate, from Greco-Lat. glossa, tongue; but, under the influence of the unrelated gloss, superficial lustre, it has acquired the sense of specious interpretation.
Flabellum: a fan: a leafed structure: the transparent lobe at the end of the glossa in bees: also used as = flagellum; q.v.
The reference to the "glossa of Theotypas" is part of the fiction.
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