Usually means: Small, spoon-shaped projecting structure.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word ligula:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. ligula: Merriam-Webster
  2. ligula: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ligula: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ligula: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ligula: Wordnik
  6. ligula: Wiktionary
  7. ligula: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ligula: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ligula: Dictionary.com
  10. Ligula: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ligula: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ligula: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Ligula: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. ligula: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ligula: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ligula: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ligula: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Ligula: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ligula: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ligula)

▸ noun:  A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects.

Similar:
ligule, stipula, stragulum, cingulum, antlia, collophore, clasper, languette, sicula, spiraculum, more...

Types:
upper, lower, central, inferior, superior, more...

Phrases:
ligula intestinalis, more...

Adjectives:
short, lower, large, long, broad, deformed, upper, elytral, entire, premental, small

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Similar:
ligule, stipula, stragulum, cingulum, antlia, collophore, clasper, languette, sicula, spiraculum, more...

Types:
upper, lower, central, inferior, superior, more...

Phrases:
ligula intestinalis, more...

Adjectives:
short, lower, large, long, broad, deformed, upper, elytral, entire, premental, small



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