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clapper, lingua, glossa, natural language, spit, knife Definition: metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side;the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot;a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity;a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language;a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue";the tongue of certain animals used as meat;a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea;any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark";lick or explore with the tongue;articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments;
Hyponyms: mother tongue, maternal language, first language, tone language, tonal language, creole, Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language, Austro-Asiatic, Munda-Mon-Khmer, Austronesian, Austronesian language, Papuan, Papuan language, Khoisan, Khoisan language, Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Ural-Altaic, Basque, Elamitic, Elamite, Susian, Kassite, Cassite, Caucasian, Caucasian language, Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian language, Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic, Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language, Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language, sharp tongue, beef tongue, calf's tongue, double tongue, triple-tongue Part Meronyms: bell, boot, shoe, mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris, throat, pharynx Derivational Morphology:
clap, lingua, glossa, clapper
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