Adam's apple Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
coffee rose; crepe jasmine; East Indian rosebay; crepe gardenia; Nero's crown; crape jasmine; Tabernaemontana divaricate; pinwheel flower.
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noun the largest cartilage of the larynx
thyroid cartilage.
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(Bot.) (a) A species of banana(Musa paradisiaca) . It attains a height of twenty feet or more. Paxton].(b) A species of lime(Citris limetta) . #2 The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.