(n.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) • +30 2424 0 34 073, hotelselenunda.com , €490, no breakfast Where to eat: Steki tou Masteras Every Greek holiday should include a good local grill house, and this one, 3km from Loutraki in the town of Glossa, is one of the best.
(2) In Gobius fluviatilis (Pallas), Gobius (Proterorhinus) marmoratus (Pallas), glossa Platichthys flesus (L) the cornea is double and there is an iridescent layer.
(3) Two beautiful beaches, and an impressively sited church, are at Agios Ioannis, reached by a winding road that starts just outside Glossa.
(4) A total of 945 non-related individuals from four isolated population groups from the Northern Aegean Sea (Greece)--Alonissos, Oxilithos, Skopelos, and Glossa, has been typed for 16 polymorphic systems of the blood, namely A1A2B0, MNS., Rhesus (C, c, Cw, D, E, e), Kell, Duffy (a,b), Kidd (a); Hp, Tf subtypes, Gc, Gm (1, 2, 3, 5, 13), Km (1); aP, AK, PGM1, EsD, and 6-PGD.
(5) Sprawling over a hillside next door is the island's second town, Glossa, which has barely altered in response to tourism.
(6) In the cornea of fishes either epithelial or endothelial basal membrane (Gobiidae, Syngnathus nigrolineatus) or a wide electron opaque epithelial membrane (Blennius tentacularis) or else, besides this, the Bowmen membrane (glossa) can be formed.
Glossy
Definition:
(superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
(1) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
(2) About 20,000 of those glossy programmes are normally sold for a big occasion at Manchester United but for this game almost four times that number had been produced.
(3) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
(4) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
(5) Photograph: Martin Godwin They say: Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast: "Given the current economic climate, it is reassuring that glossy magazines are still selling in considerable numbers.
(6) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
(7) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
(8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
(9) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
(10) The launch - from five sites across the US in partnership with Canadian media group Quebecor - will bring him into direct competition with the giants of the glossy world of American publishing, like Time Inc and Condé Nast.
(11) For people who don’t care about pop music or the fashion industry, it’s just another month of glossy magazines.
(12) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
(13) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
(14) However, Condé Nast insiders say Greig's resignation is expected within days and the glossy magazine publisher's managing director, Nicolas Coleridge, is understood to be discreetly searching for a replacement Tatler editor.
(15) In addition to glossiness, color coordinates in the CIELAB color scale and surface roughness were measured.
(16) When you subscribe to the Daily Telegraph you get so much extra: “extra, extra every day”, says the glossy new TV commercial for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney tabloid.
(17) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
(18) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
(19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
(20) Don't place too much authority on universities' glossy photos and grinning case studies – they're adverts.