Glossa

/ˈɡlɒsə/ · noun

Meaning

(zoology) The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect..

Definitions by Sense

1. (zoology) The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect.
2. (phonology) Unintelligible ecstatic speech.

Example Sentences

They wished to see what Holy would do with the glossa. “The innocent will tell no lies.” The organ eventually had been divided into nineteen sections, distributed, and ingested. “We swallow your lies and cause them to build our powers.”

Her swollen “button” hitting his glossa tip provided wave after wave of full body pleasure.

It was his glossa, strange that; when dead men had no need to verbalize.

In the Paragiina, the proximal region of the glossa is elongated, and the paraglossae are long and reach the bifid apex of the glossa.

This pattern does not hold in the glossas we have examined: [th] occurs where we expect [], as in the “word” kita in our sample text, and [] occurs freely in other American glossas as an independent sound unit,[…]

I have analysed a total of 24 prophetic glossas in this way, and 10 passages of the more easily intelligible prayer specimens of glossolalia. These glossas emanate from a total of 15 persons.

Although Samarin has examples of glossas from people who are not adherents to Christianity he does feel that occurences^([sic]) of glossolalia apart from Christian influences are rare.

Thus significant differences exist between the glossas of different individuals: indeed, one person may have more than one distinctive glossa. And there are differences between the glossas of people of different linguistic backgrounds which correspond with the differences between their mother tongues, allowing for the influence of other languages which they may know to some extent.

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• glossae
• glossas

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