noun, feminine/e.pi.ɡlɔt/plural: épiglottes
épiglotte is feminine in French.
epiglottis
Related: épiglottie, épiglottique
Learned borrowing from New Latin epiglōttis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιγλωττίς (epiglōttís, “valve covering the larynx”)