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noun

lingula, lingulae n. (pl. lingulae)

(Anat.) A tonguelike process or part.

(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda.

Lingula flags (Geol.), a group of strata in the lower Silurian or Cambrian system of Wales, in which some of the layers contain vast numbers of a species of Lingula.

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"Lingula" Quotes from Famous Books

... of plants having undergone more change since old geological periods than animals, are you not rather comparing plants with higher animals? Think how little some, indeed many, mollusca have changed. Remember Silurian Nautilus, Lingula and other Brachiopods, and Nucula, and amongst ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... prove an alibi, it is of no use for him to get a thousand witnesses simply to swear that they did not see him in such and such a place, unless the witnesses are prepared to prove that they must have seen him had he been there. But the evidence that animal life commenced with the Lingula-flags, e.g., would seem to be exactly of this unsatisfactory uncorroborated sort. The Cambrian witnesses simply swear they "haven't seen anybody their way;" upon which the counsel for the other side immediately puts in ten or twelve thousand feet of Devonian ...

— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley