languette

The languette, or plate, is fixed between the two rows of caps, one of its extremities upon the two right-hand caps, the other extending on the left beyond the base of the rectangle.

This naturalist believes that the apparatus by the aid of which the act is performed is the series of dorsal languettes or the organs which represent them.

At the root of the languette, and a little below the middle of the interior space which intervenes between the mandibles, is placed the pharynx.

Lastly, the stem of each auditory hair presents a sort of appendage (the languette), to which the nerve of the hair is attached.

The foregoing analysis suggests that smaller dimensions and decoration with languettes are characteristic of hydrias in our assemblage, though neither criterion need be applicable in other regions or even in other PG periods at Lefkandi. (41)

The instrument had to be soaked in water for a short time so the languette became soft again.

In the Maple (Fig. 205) each fruit has two samarae united at base. In the Ash there is but one to each flower; its long wing gives it the name languette (little tongue, Fr.)

The mantle entirely envelops the animal, and forms three apertures, one of which serves for the passage of the byssus and the languette;