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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



... prunes and set them in a bowl on the window-sill beside his bunk, where the air was coolest. He stropped his razor painstakingly and shaved himself in leisurely fashion and sent an occasional glance toward his prisoner from the looking-glass, which made Buck swallow hard at his Adam's apple. ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower



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



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