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gula

[ gyoo-luh, goo- ]

noun

, plural gu·lae [gyoo, -lee, goo, -], gu·las.
  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.


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Other Words From

  • gular adjective
  • inter·gular adjective
  • sub·gular adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gula1

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

Dark and floral, with notes of butterscotch and smoke, palm sugar, or gula melaka, is the choice sweetener in most, if not all, of Malaysia's desserts.

From Salon

Riley holds that the hypopharynx belongs to the mandibular and maxillary segments, while the cervical sclerites or gula represent the sternum of the labial segment.

It was tiffin time, and they were anxious to set before us our lunch of rice curry, gula Malacca, whiskey and soda.

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

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