nounligulae

• The strap-shaped terminal part of an insect's labium, typically lobed.

  ‘They transport the spermatophores with a copulatory organ, called the ligula, located on the tip of one of their arms.’

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  • ‘This individual is a hyolithid without question because both the ligula and the dorsoventral differentiation ordinarily seen in hyoliths are clearly present.’
  • ‘Conchs of the Girvan specimens match the diagnostic traits given above in terms of the ligula, aperture and ornamentation on the shell.’