gula

American  

[gyoo-luh, goo-] / ˈgyu lə, ˈgu- /

noun

plural

gulae, gulas

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

• gular adjective
• intergular adjective
• subgular adjective

Etymology

Origin of gula

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

Example Sentences

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

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 Stokes, John Lort

Mental suture: in Coleoptera, the line between mentum and gula.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Color superne brunneo-cinereus, margines squamarum nigri, gula nigra, fascicula subtus antea alba, postice lutescens.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William