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What is a ligula?

What is a ligula? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects.
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They transport the spermatophores with a copulatory organ, called the ligula, located on the tip of one of their arms.
Conchs of the Girvan specimens match the diagnostic traits given above in terms of the ligula, aperture and ornamentation on the shell.
This individual is a hyolithid without question because both the ligula and the dorsoventral differentiation ordinarily seen in hyoliths are clearly present.
The narrow leaves are identified by auricula, ligula, hair, and other apparent characteristic of the plant.
At Ligula hospital in the Tanzanian region of Mtwara, the practice of strapping a new born baby to the mum''s chest is helping keep babies alive.
This is produced by ligula simplicissima, which escapes by an aperture formed near the vent of the infested fish.

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