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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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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Look up tongue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of most vertebrate animals. Tongue or Tongues may also refer...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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linguistics, specifically articulatory phonetics, tongue shape describes the shape that the tongue assumes when it makes a sound. Because the sibilant...
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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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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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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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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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Cymothoa exigua (redirect from Tongue-biters)
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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The goat's tongue is a method of torture which may or may not have been practiced in medieval Europe, whereby a goat would lick the feet of a victim whose...
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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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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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The tongue map or taste map is a common misconception that different sections of the tongue are exclusively responsible for different basic tastes. It...
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International Mother Language Day (redirect from International Mother Tongue Day)
Cultures[citation needed] 2012: Mother-tongue instruction and inclusive education[citation needed] 2013: Annual theme: "Books for mother tongue education" 2014: Annual...
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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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In music, the term slap tonguing refers to a musician playing a single-reed instrument such as a clarinet or a saxophone employing a technique to produce...
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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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Tongue thrust, also called reverse swallow or immature swallow, is a pseudo-pathological name for an adaptive lip seal mechanism, whereby normal nasal...
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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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Oral sex (redirect from Tongue fuck)
genitalia of a person by another person using the mouth (including the lips, tongue, or teeth). Cunnilingus is oral sex performed on the vulva while fellatio...
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Xannon Shirley, better known by the stage name The Tongue, is an Australian rapper, DJ and high school teacher from Sydney. He released two EPs (Bad Education...
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The fimbriated fold of tongue, also plica fimbriata, is a slight fold of the mucous membrane on the underside of the tongue which runs laterally on either...
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Anilingus (redirect from Butt tonguing)
sex) in which one person stimulates the anus of another by using their tongue or lips. The anus has a relatively high concentration of nerve endings and...
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