Definitions
Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …”
“… ever exposed to their envy, and the tung of slander …”
“Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Varnish-oil source”4 letters
02“Oil tree”4 letters
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