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What is a glossa?

What is a glossa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (zoology) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect.
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Examples
Both species landed directly on the column but, while one scraped its abdomen against the anthers, the other introduced its glossa into the anther, and then scraped it.
According to the morphing phenomena of honeybee's glossa, we proposed a compliant mechanism model to predict the deformation behavior of honeybee considering elastic properties of the glossal intersegmental membranes.
Late in life he retired to his villa, and there in quiet worked on his great glossa till he died.
Using the scanning electron microscope and a specially-designed high-speed camera system, we measure the dimensions of the glossal satae and capture dynamics of the hairy glossa in nectar feeding.
Meryl is known to have eaten at Agnanti in Glossa, which was also near where we stayed.
On these place a new pot, pour into it some fornis mentioned above, called by the Romans glossa, otherwise gum arabic.

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