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Adam's apple

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Ad·am's apple  (dmz)
n.
The slight projection at the front of the throat formed by the largest cartilage of the larynx, usually more prominent in men than in women.

[Ultimately translation of French pomme d'Adam, pomegranate, Adam's apple (sense influenced by Arabic rummna, pomegranate, Adam's apple) : pomme, apple + de, of + Adam, Adam.]

Adam's apple
Noun
the projecting lump of thyroid cartilage at the front of a person's neck
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Noun1.Adam's apple - tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
genus Tabernaemontana, Tabernaemontana - evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
2.Adam's appleAdam's apple - the largest cartilage of the larynx
cartilage, gristle - tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
larynx, voice box - a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech
Translations
French Adam's apple [ˈædəmz-] npomme f d'Adam
German Adam's apple [ˈædəmz-] nAdamsapfel m
Italian Adam's apple [ˈædəmz-] npomo di Adamo

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He was slender to emaciation, cavernously checked, roll after roll of skin, no longer encasing flesh or muscle, hanging grotesquely down his neck and swathing the Adam's apple so that only occasionally, with queer swallowing motions, did it peep out of the mummy-wrappings of skin and sink back again from view.
 
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