Meaning: tongue

Illustrative Context

He stuck his tongue out.

Target Sense

• The basic term for the tongue as a part of the human body.
• The lexeme selected must be applicable to the human tongue. (It may, and in many languages does apply also to the tongues of animals.)
• The literal term for the physical body part. Avoid different terms specific to the sense of taste, to language, and to figurative senses such as somebody's way of speaking (e.g. ‘sharp tongue’).
• Avoid more technical anatomical or medical terms, if different.