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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity [syn: tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural linguae) Etymology: Latin — more at tongue Date: circa 1826 a tongue or an organ resembling a tongue

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lingua Lin"gua (l[i^][ng]"gw[.a]), n.; pl. Lingu[ae] (-gw[=e]). [L., the tongue.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A tongue. (b) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.