lingulate

1. 1.

   shaped like a tongue

   Synonymstongue-shaped

   Similarrounded

Questions about lingulate

What does lingulate mean?

lingulate means "shaped like a tongue".

How many syllables are in lingulate?

lingulate has 3 syllables and divides as lin-gu-late under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lingulate?

Close synonyms include tongue-shaped. 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.