languette

Meanings

1. Alternative form of languet.
2. A tongue-shaped implement.
3. A tongue-like organ found on tunicates.
4. Synonym of lingula.
5. bony tongue-shaped structure on the mandible
6. fleshy tongue-shaped structure
7. A tongue-shaped design used to decorate Ancient Greek pottery.
8. A type of decorative hood used on a woman's bodice in the seventeenth century.
9. The tongue of a reed on a harmonium.
10. An elongated samara that occurs alone.
11. A valve flap associated with the byssus of a mollusk.

Etymology

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua. By surface analysis, Old French langue + -ette.