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What is the adjective for tongue?

What's the adjective for tongue? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb tongue which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tongueless
  1. Having no tongue.
  2. Lacking speech; mute.
  3. Making no sound; silent, speechless.
  4. Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The sorrow which has a voice is less crushing than that which is tongueless.”
      “There are about 6 to 14 species of tongueless, aquatic African frogs.”
      “You'd call it foot in mouth, except that what the Emperor asks his daughter to hoover up with her tongueless lips is his severed hand.”
tongued
  1. Resembling a tongue.
  2. (in combination) Having a particular manner of speaking.
tonguelike
  1. Resembling a tongue or some aspect of one.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the wild, a honeybee extends its tonguelike proboscis when it happens upon preferred flower types, which it learns to identify by smell.”
      “Eventually, bees extended their tonguelike proboscises when exposed to the scent alone.”
      “Then the chelicerae switch to a breaststroke motion that draws in the barbed tonguelike needle, or hypostome.”
tonguing
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