languette

noun11

1. •
   A tongue-shaped implement.

   • The languette, or plate, is fixed between the two rows of caps, one of its extremities upon the two right-hand caps, the other extending on the left beyond the base of the rectangle. — 1854
2. •
   The tongue of a reed on a harmonium.

   • The instrument had to be soaked in water for a short time so the languette became soft again. — 2001
3. •
   Alternative form of languet.
4. •
   A tongue-like organ found on tunicates.

   • This naturalist believes that the apparatus by the aid of which the act is performed is the series of dorsal languettes or the organs which represent them. — 1892
5. •
   bony tongue-shaped structure on the mandible

   • At the root of the languette, and a little below the middle of the interior space which intervenes between the mandibles, is placed the pharynx. — 1834
6. •
   fleshy tongue-shaped structure

   • Lastly, the stem of each auditory hair presents a sort of appendage (the languette), to which the nerve of the hair is attached. — 1865
7. •
   A valve flap associated with the byssus of a mollusk.

   • The mantle entirely envelops the animal, and forms three apertures, one of which serves for the passage of the byssus and the languette — 1867
8. •
   Synonym of lingula.
9. •
   A tongue-shaped design used to decorate Ancient Greek pottery.

   • It has a spherical body, and is decorated at top and bottom with languettes, or 'tongue' ornament. — 1999
10. •
    An elongated samara that occurs alone.

    • In the Maple (Fig. 205) each fruit has two samarae united at base. In the Ash there is but one to each flower; its long wing gives it the name languette (little tongue, Fr.) — 1889
11. •
    A type of decorative hood used on a woman's bodice in the seventeenth century.