Ligula is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 54 anagrams from letters in ligula (agillu).
1750-60; New Latin, special use of Latin li(n)gula spoon, shoe-strap, equivalent to lig-, variant stem of lingere to lick + -ula -ule
In this case, only the actual tongue (or ligula) and its paragloss are figured.
In the common seal have also been found ligula crispa, Schistocephalus dimorphus, and Echinorhynchus strumosus.
The long sucking “tongue” of bees is probably a modification of the ligula.
According to circumstances it might perhaps be denominated Lingua or ligula.
And lastly, in the midst of all is a slender setiform organ (ligula), which is the counterpart of the tongue.
Paraglossa, par-a-glos′a, n. one of the two appendages of the ligula in insects.
Tubus: a term used to designate the corneous base of a ligula: the sheath of the tongue.
This is produced by ligula simplicissima, which escapes by an aperture formed near the vent of the infested fish.
This I shall not deny; but the ligula certainly had more resemblance to a small spatula, or tea-spoon, than to our forks.