hairy tongue

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   a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue

   Synonymsfurry tongueblack tongue

   Broaderside effect

Questions about hairy tongue

What does hairy tongue mean?

hairy tongue means "a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue".

What is another word for hairy tongue?

Close synonyms include furry tongue, black tongue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hairy tongue a common word?

hairy tongue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.