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RELATED WORDS : adder's tongue adder's tongue fern beef tongue black tongue bull tongue calf's tongue den mother devil's tongue double tongue earth mother foster mother furry tongue give tongue to great mother hairy tongue mother mother board mother carey's chicken mother carey's hen mother cell mother country mother figure mother fucker mother goose mother hen mother hubbard mother jones mother lode mother of god mother of thyme mother seton mother superior mother teresa mother theresa mother wit mother-in-law's tongue painted tongue queen mother sharp tongue slip of the tongue spore mother cell surrogate mother tongue tongue and groove joint tongue depressor tongue fern tongue in cheek tongue lash tongue lashing tongue tie tongue tied tongue twister tongue worm yellow adder's tongue

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mother tongue has 1 sense

• mother tongue(n = noun.communication) first language, maternal language - one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next; Array
is a kind of natural language, tongue

ROGET THESAURUS

mother tongue

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.

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