title: Lingula
text: # Lingula
  
  Lingula is Latin for "little tongue". It can stand for:
  
  * Lingula (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus of the family Lingulidae, which is among the few brachiopods surviving today but also known from fossils over 500 million years old
  * Lingala language, a Bantu language
  * A wide strap above the instep in sandals
  * In anatomy:
     * the Lingula of left lung, one of the segments of the left lung with a tongue-shape
     * The Sphenoidal lingula, a part of the sphenoid bone
     * The Lingula of mandible, a ridge on the medial aspect of the body of the mandible, just anterior to the mandibular foramen
     * the Lingula of cerebellum
     * Taenia of fourth ventricle
     * In the vasiform orifice of the Aleyrodidae a small, tongue-like organ assisting in the excretion of honeydew
  