gular
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of gular
C19: from Latin gula throat
Example Sentences
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Two discoveries made by the team while conducting fieldwork at Lavernock were the fossilized remains of a placodont osteoderm, and a single coelacanth gular bone.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
They are practicing what scientists call gular fluttering — panting.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2016
The Bustard, huge Rasor, with gular pouch long, With legs formed for running, and beak that is strong, Whose presence this island regards now as rare.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 by Various
Lizards, relative size of the sexes of; gular pouches of.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
The gular scutes, on the anterior edge of the forelobe, become worn long before other plastral laminae do.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.
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