sublingual gland

1. 1.

   a small salivary gland that produces mucin (the viscous component of saliva); in human beings it is located on either side of the mouth under the tongue

   Synonymssublingual salivary gland

   Broadersalivary gland

Questions about sublingual gland

What does sublingual gland mean?

sublingual gland means "a small salivary gland that produces mucin (the viscous component of saliva); in human beings it is located on either side of the mouth under the tongue".

What is another word for sublingual gland?

Close synonyms include sublingual salivary gland. 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 sublingual gland a common word?

sublingual gland 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.