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intertongue en · VERB

Etymology

From inter- + tongue.

Meanings

  1. (of strata) To interlock.
    • The gently undulating interstream timbered lands border the shallow valleys and intertongue irregularly with the prairie lands. 1916, Lloyd William Stephenson, Geology and ground waters of northeastern Arkansas, page 149:
    • North of Jack Creek, where the Chappo Member intertongues with the Hoback Formation, the Hoback thickens to 2,000 m. 1977, John Adam Dorr, Deformation and Deposition Between a Foreland Uplift and an Impinging Thrust Belt: Hoback Basin, Wyoming:

Forms

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intertongues Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
intertongued Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
intertongued Tense=Past lexicographic
intertonguing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic