a. [ad. L. lingulāt-us: see LINGULA and -ATE.] Tongue-shaped.
1849. Hardy, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. No. 7. 361. Antennæ with the third joint parallelogrammic, with its tip rounded (lingulate).
1863. Berkeley, Brit. Mosses, Gloss. 312. Lingulate, tongue-shaped.
1881. Nature, 4 Aug., 308. In three years … I found exactly one hundred implements, mostly lingulate examples (a few ovate).
So Lingulated, in the same sense.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), III. 244/2. [Botany.] Lingulated, tongue-shaped.
