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Adam's apple
[In allusion to the story of the Fall.]
1. A name given to a variety of the Lime or Bergamotte (Citrus Limetta), and sometimes to varieties of the Orange and Shaddock.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 227 There came two of their Barkes neere vnto our ship laden with fruite..which wee call Adams apples. 1615Sandys Trav. 224 The apples of Adam..the iuyce wherof they tunne vp and send into Turky. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Adam's Apple..a Fruit but little different from Lemons. 1866Lindley & Moore Treas. Bot. i. 292/2 Among them [limes] is one called by the Italians Pomo d'Adamo, because they fancy the depressions on its surface appear as if it still bore the marks of Adam's teeth.
2. The projection formed in the neck by the anterior extremity of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx.
1755Johnson, Adam's-apple, a prominent part of the throat. 1847Craig, Adam's-apple, so called from a superstitious notion that a piece of the forbidden fruit stuck in Adam's throat, and occasioned this prominence. 1865Daily Tel. 20 July, Having the noose adjusted and secured by tightening above his ‘Adam's apple.’ 1872Huxley Physiol. vii. 178 The thyroid cartilage..constitutes what is commonly called ‘Adam's apple.’ |