tongue-shaped

1. 1.

   shaped like a tongue

   Synonymslingulate

   Similarrounded

Questions about tongue-shaped

What does tongue-shaped mean?

tongue-shaped means "shaped like a tongue".

How many syllables are in tongue-shaped?

tongue-shaped has 3 syllables: ton-gue--shaped. The stress falls on "ton".

What is another word for tongue-shaped?

Close synonyms include lingulate. 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 tongue-shaped a common word?

tongue-shaped 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.