(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.
Paraglossa
Definition:
(n.) One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.