gula

American  

[gyoo-luh, goo-] / ˈgju lə, ˈgu- /

noun

• gulae,
  plural
• gulas
  plural

1. Zoology.

   1. the upper part of the throat or gullet.

   2. the front or forward part of the neck.

2. Architecture.

   1. a molding having a large hollow, as a cavetto.

   2. ogee.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• gular
  adjective
• intergular
  adjective
• subgular
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• gulae
  plural
• gulas
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of gula

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: throat, gullet, appetite

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Example Sentences

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gula gulae

But the essential flavor in black rice pudding is not the rice or the coconut, or even the funky gula jawa sugar — it’s the pandan.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021

One, Meriton Latroon’s Bantam Punch, combined an Indonesian rum of sorts called Batavia Arrack with ambergris, which Mr. Wondrich defined as “clotted whale cholesterol,” and gula jawa, a funky Indonesian palm sugar.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010

This e may be added to words which have not a distinct noun termination: naoe gula the chief place.

From Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands by W. G. (Walter George) Ivens

After a repast of young coconuts, and gula, a kind of honey; it was arranged that a party should be collected to go with us on the morrow to shoot deer and pigs.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea by John Lort Stokes

Heymons considers that it represents the sternites of the three trophal segments, and that the gula is merely a secondary development.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

On folio 180d we find a chapter entitled "De cathena gulae incisa vel fracta," and copied almost literally from the chapter "De catena gulae" of Roger.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson

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