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Adam's apple   /ˈædəmz ˈæpəl/   Listen
Adam's apple

noun
1.
Tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand.  Synonyms: coffee rose, crape jasmine, crepe gardenia, crepe jasmine, East Indian rosebay, Nero's crown, pinwheel flower, Tabernaemontana divaricate.
2.
The largest cartilage of the larynx.  Synonym: thyroid cartilage.






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"Adam's apple" Quotes from Famous Books



... a SNAP if we'd gone on, and let these fellows back here in the trees close up behind us!" Andy Green exclaimed suddenly, with a vividness of gesture that made Happy Jack try to swallow his Adam's apple. "By gracious, it would have been a regular rabbit-drive business. They could set in the shade and pick us off just as they ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower



Words linked to "Adam's apple" :   genus Tabernaemontana, Tabernaemontana, gristle, bush, larynx, cartilage, voice box, shrub



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