linguaform meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

linguaform

adj

Etymology With alteration after Classical Latin lingua (“tongue”).

Uncommon Uncommon form of linguiform (“shaped like a tongue”).

[T]ail linguaform, with angular oval soft scales, and hairs sparingly interspersed in their intestices; […]1861, W[illiam] Lauder Lindsay, “What to Observe in Canadian Lichens”, in The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, and Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Montreal, volume VI, Montreal: […] B. Dawson & Son, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 305:
The albumen-gland resembles that of the snail; it is, however, less compact, and more linguaform than boat-shaped, and is usually of a yellowish-white aspect both externally and within; […]1863, Henry Lawson, “On the General Anatomy, Histology, and Physiology of Limax maximus”, in Edwin Lankester, George Busk, editors, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, volume III (New Series), London: John Churchill and Sons, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:

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Spores linguaform, erect, plane, cellular.1864, C[hristopher] E[dmund] Broome, “The Fungi of Wiltshire”, in The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, […], volume VIII, number XXIV, Devizes, Wiltshire: Henry Bull, […]; London: Bell & Daldy, […]; J. R. Smith, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 208:
The anterior end of the body is linguaform with 2 relatively long glandular zones into which numerous cephalic glands open.1961 December, Boris E[vseevich] Bychowsky, translated by Pierre C[onstantin] Oustinoff, “Monocotylidae Taschenberg, 1879, part., Dionchinae Johnston and Tiegs, 1922”, in William J[ennings] Hargis, Jr., editor, Monogenetic Trematodes: Their Systematics and Phylogeny, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, published August 1962 (2nd printing), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 443:

adj

Etymology From Classical Latin lingua (“language”) + -form.

Uncommon In the form of language.

Second, [Stephen] Kosslyn thinks that the representations constructed in visual imagination are syntactically and semantically pictorial, rather than linguaform.1990, Kim Sterelny, “Homuncular Functionalism”, in The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, published 1991, →ISBN, chapter 1 (A Functionalist Theory of the Mind), page 14:
I also stress the pre-reflective and pre-conscious nature of many aspects of this reciprocity, which means that some of these relations are sensed without us necessarily being aware of them, as a result of their embedding in all kinds of habitual and ‘learned’ cognitive skills, including our own ability to move, that are practical in nature, not linguaform or conceptual, and not based on inferential aspects of perception itself.2013, Jonathan Owen Clark, “The intrinsic significance of dance: a phenomenological approach”, in Jenny Bunker, Anna Pakes, Bonnie Rowell, editors, Thinking Through Dance: The Philosophy of Dance Performance and Practices, Binsted, Hampshire: Dance Books, →ISBN, part III (Dance Expression and Representation), page 205:

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What is it about the character of this language-oriented philosophy that led it to almost completely ignore the body? The answer, I shall argue, is that (1) its exclusive focus on language as the object of philosophical analysis turned attention away from anything that was not linguaform, […]2017, Mark Johnson, “Introduction: Bringing the Body to Mind”, in Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 4:

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