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noun, feminine

épiglotte

/e.pi.ɡlɔt/

noun, feminine/e.pi.ɡlɔt/plural: épiglottes

epiglottis

Related: épiglottie, épiglottique

Learned borrowing from New Latin epiglōttis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιγλωττίς (epiglōttís, “valve covering the larynx”)