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glos·sa

 (glô′sə, glŏs′ə)
n. pl. glos·sae (glô′sē, glŏs′ē) or glos·sas
1. Anatomy The tongue.
2. Zoology A tonguelike structure in the labium of an insect.

[Greek glōssa, tongue.]

glos′sal adj.
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glossa

(ˈɡlɒsə)
n, pl -sae (-siː) or -sas
1. (Anatomy) anatomy a technical word for tongue1
2. (Zoology) a paired tonguelike lobe in the labium of an insect
ˈglossal adj
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glos•sa

(ˈglɒs ə, ˈglɔ sə)

n., pl. glos•sae (ˈglɒs i, ˈglɔ si)
glos•sas.
1. the tongue.
2. one of a pair of median, sometimes fused lobes of the labium of an insect.
[1885–90; < Greek glôssa tongue]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.glossa - a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavityglossa - a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
articulator - a movable speech organ
mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris - the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy"
gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebud - an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue
pharynx, throat - the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
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Translations

glos·sa

n. glosa, lengua.
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"Hé, but now, what is there so formidable in this: 'GLOSSA IN EPISTOLAS D.
Questa distinzione appare gia formulata nella glossa ordinaria di Bernardo da Parma sulle Decretales di Gregorio IX (17), ma si affermo definitivamente attraverso il commento di Dino del Mugello sulla regula iuris del Liber Sextus (18).
Candler advances the John Milbank/ Catherine Pickstock hermeneutics of recovery of medieval theology and suspicion of univocal Derridean notions of "the book" by arguing for "new ways of reading the Glossa Ordinaria and the Summa Theologiae, as informed by Augustine's account of rhetoric" (165).
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La fede nell'epoca della <<perdita del mondo>>, Milano: Glossa, 2010, 193-218.
BRUGNOTTO, G, Il catecumenato come istituto giuridico di incorporazione alla Chiesa nei secoli I-VII, in GRUPPO ITALIANO DOCENTI DI DIRITTO CANONICO (a cura del), Iniziazione cristiana: profili generali, Glossa, Milano 2008, 69-84.
In his most recent release, La guitarra espanola (Glossa GCD 920103, rec 1994), he plays the full gamut of early guitars from the vihuela (is it a guitar?
I principi dell'umano e la molteplicita delle culture, Milano: Glossa, 2007.
But the demonstrators were stopped in their tracks by Limassol police who cut them off at the Kellaki and Panyia tou Glossa crossroad.
Perhaps we should counter the idealist belief of modern scholars that if a text is present in a medieval composition then it was meant to be understood in a fashion that somehow corresponds to what a musicologist, armed with dictionaries, concordances, the Glossa ordinaria, and more besides can accomplish.