язычо́к — meaning in English

English meaning

• reed noun A tall, slender grass-like plant that grows in wet ground or shallow water.
• tongue noun The flexible muscular organ in the mouth used for tasting, moving food, and forming speech sounds.

Senses

язычо́к is used for these senses in English:

• ligula A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects.
• reed (countable, music) Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
• tongue In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
• uvula (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine uvula, the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.

reed — full definition

1. noun A tall, slender grass-like plant that grows in wet ground or shallow water.
2. noun A thin strip of cane or metal in certain musical instruments that vibrates to produce sound.

tongue — full definition

1. noun The flexible muscular organ in the mouth used for tasting, moving food, and forming speech sounds.
2. noun A language.
3. noun A narrow strip of material or land, such as the flap in a shoe or a strip of land jutting into water.

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