tongue-shell

English edit

a tongue-shell
Lingula

Noun edit

tongue-shell (plural tongue-shells)

Any species of the brachipod genus Lingula.

Further reading edit

Lingula (brachiopod) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lingula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tongue-shell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)