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
Lizards, relative size of the sexes of; gular pouches of.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
Steganop′odes, an order of swimming birds, with all four toes webbed and a gular pouch—cormorants, frigate-birds, pelicans, gannets.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Gopherus berlandieri, the closest relative of G. flavomarginatus in a geographic sense, has a highly arched shell and pronglike gular projections, between which there is nearly always a deep notch.
From A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico by Legler, John M.
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