Tongueless
Tongueless is an adjective describing the condition of lacking a tongue. In medical and anatomical contexts it may refer to congenital absence, destruction, or surgical removal of the tongue, and it can also be used metaphorically to describe speechlessness or silence in fiction and rhetoric.
In medicine, complete absence of the tongue is called aglossia. More commonly, tongueless states arise after
The term is not tied to a single diagnosis and may be used descriptively across contexts, from
Etymology: the word combines tongue from Old English tunge with the suffix -less meaning without.