The pipids, which are completely aquatic, are unique among anurans; they lack a tongue and thus must essentially suck food and water into their mouth.
It contains teeth and a mandible, but lacks a new tongue.
The causes which led to the separation of the colonies from the British crown have never lacked for a tongue.
Although he lacks a politician's silver tongue — he can be a nervous public speaker, and his diction can be halting — he talks more like a father of the nation than a corporate executive.
Though a somewhat primitive tongue (in that it lacks a capacity for abstraction), it is evocative and vivid, with a poetic particularity all its own.
"They are lacking of tongue, for they never speak to us, lacking the fine lines and good designs and functional qualities," he wrote.
Unfortunately, the Downtown Bronx lacks a certain cachet and does not quite roll off the tongue with the same sort of spooky allure.
Its main disadvantages are that it is unable to track multiple tongue fleshpoints simultaneously, lacks an anatomically based coordinate system, and the head must remain still during recordings.
Two Lexicon Pgap1 KO mice were born with no facial features (Supplementary Figure S1j), lacking nostrils, mouth, tongue, mandible and ear canals.
While not without humor, "The Heir Apparent" lacks the tongue-in-cheek wit of a Bond movie.
During times of sudden climate change, when food became scarcer or less nutritious, other species may have lacked suitable tongues or trunks to eat enough food to survive.
