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ring-necked

[ ring-nekt ]

adjective

, Zoology.
  1. having a ring of distinctive color around the neck.


ring-necked

adjective

  1. (of animals, esp certain birds and snakes) having a band of distinctive colour around the neck
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ring-necked1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

The garter and ring-necked snakes wear Eve's wedding-ring as a collar.

The copperhead, garter snakes, and ring-necked snakes all collapsed at temperatures near 41.

But the most conspicuous and interesting of all these lawn birds are the ring-necked plovers, or killdeers.

The only kinds known were the ring-necked lory and the common red and green lorikeet, both common at Amboyna.

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