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    The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for chewing and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and...
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    the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae. It enters a fish through the gills. The female attaches to the tongue, while...
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  • Look up silver tongue or silver-tongued in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A "silver tongue" implies one with a tendency to be eloquent and persuasive...
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    Tongue-in-cheek is an idiom that describes a humorous or sarcastic statement expressed in a serious manner. The phrase originally expressed contempt, but...
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    Geographic tongue, also known by several other terms, is a condition of the mucous membrane of the tongue, usually on the dorsal surface. It is a common...
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    French kiss (redirect from Tongue wrestling)
    cataglottism or a tongue kiss, is an amorous kiss in which the participants' tongues extend to touch each other's lips or tongue. A kiss with the tongue stimulates...
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    First language (redirect from Mother-tongue)
    A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical...
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    Tongue and groove is a method of fitting similar objects together, edge to edge, used mainly with wood, in flooring, parquetry, panelling, and similar...
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  • Native Tongue(s) may refer to: Native Tongues (book), a non-fiction book about languages by Charles Berlitz published in 1982 Native Tongue (Carl Hiaasen...
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    Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is an activity or practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers...
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  • The Mother Tongue is a 1990 book by Bill Bryson which compiles the history and origins of the English language and its various quirks. It is subtitled...
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  • Old Tongue or The Old Tongue may refer to: An ancient language An extinct language Old Tongue (poem), by Jackie Kay Old Tongues, a 1994 Dutch film The...
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    Tongue bifurcation, splitting or forking, is a type of body modification in which the tongue is cut centrally from its tip to as far back as the underside...
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  • Tonguing is a technique used with wind instruments to enunciate notes using the tongue on the palate or the reed or mouthpiece. A silent "tee" is made...
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  • Montana Tongue River Dam Tongue River Indian Reservation Tongue River Reservoir State Park Tongue River Railroad, a proposed rail line Tongue River (Texas)...
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    Tongue (Scottish Gaelic: Tunga from Old Norse: Tunga) is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of...
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    Beef tongue (also known as neat's tongue or ox tongue) is a cut of beef made of the tongue of a cow. It can be boiled, pickled, roasted or braised in...
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    Tongue rolling is the ability to roll the lateral edges of the tongue upwards into a tube. The tongue's intrinsic muscles allow some people to form their...
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    Fissured tongue is a benign condition characterized by deep grooves (fissures) in the dorsum of the tongue. Although these grooves may look unsettling...
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    The Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO) is the name of a region of much deeper water in the Bahamas separating the islands of Andros and New Providence. The TOTO...
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    Caviar tongue is a condition characterized by the purplish nodular swelling of veins found on the undersurface of the tongue. It is normal for there to...
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    Blue-tongued skinks comprise the Australasian genus Tiliqua, which contains some of the largest members of the skink family (Scincidae). They are commonly...
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  • A tongue twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Additionally...
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  • Look up mother tongue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mother tongue usually refers to the language that a person learned as a child at home or a person's...
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  • Butterfly's Tongue or Butterfly (Spanish: La lengua de las mariposas [la ˈleŋɡwa ðe las maɾiˈposas]; may be more literally translated as "The Tongue of the...
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    A forked tongue is a tongue split into two distinct tines at the tip; this is a feature common to many species of reptiles. Reptiles smell using the tip...
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  • causing restricted movement of the tongue. Tongue-tie, tongue tied or tongue-tied can also refer to: Tongue-Tied (short story collection), a 2002 collection...
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    Gene Simmons (redirect from Tongue Magazine)
    at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Simmons had his own magazine, Gene Simmons Tongue Magazine, his own label, Simmons Records, and animated series, My Dad the...
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  • Blue Tongue may refer to : Blue-tongued skink Bluetongue disease Blue Tongue Entertainment - an Australian video game developer Blue Tongue bush or Straits...
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    The frenulum (or frenum) of the tongue, tongue web, lingual frenulum, frenulum linguae, or fraenulum is a small fold of mucous membrane extending from...
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