name
Meaning 1
Synonym of Lincoln Island.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Lincoln Island
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tung
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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do͝ong
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CMU ARPABET: T AH1 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A tung tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tung tree, tung-oil tree, Aleurites fordii
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
History
Etymology
From Mandarin 東島 /东岛 Wade–Giles romanization: Tung1-tao3.
From Middle English tonge, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”); along with Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵhwéh2s.
From Chinese 桐 (tóng).
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Russian: тунг (tung) — tung tree
- Russian: ту́нговое де́рево (túngovoje dérevo) — tung tree
- Serbo-Croatian: tungovo drvo — tung tree