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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornithology, the lower part of the throat; the fore part of the neck, between the gula and the pectus. See cut under bird.
  • noun In entomology: A name proposed by Knoch and used by some writers to indicate the lower surface of the prothorax of a beetle
  • noun A name given by Kirby to the basal piece on the lower side of an insect's head, now generally known as the gula.
  • noun A name sometimes applied to the occipital foramen, an orifice in the back of the head, through which the alimentary canal and other organs pass to the thorax.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.

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  • noun anatomy The neck or throat.

Etymologies

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From Latin iugulum.

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