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gular, a. (n.)|ˈgjuːlə(r)|
[f. gula (in sense 2 f. L. gula) + -ar.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or situated upon the gula.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 349 A gular pouch in the greater number. 18..Ridgway in Coues Birds N.W. (1874) 287 Allowing the red of the gular patch to touch, for quite a distance, the white stripe beneath the eye. 1882C. C. Hopley Snakes 67 The egg comes in contact with certain ‘gular teeth’, which then break the shell without any loss of the contents to the feeder. 1892W. H. Hudson Natur. La Plata 249 A large number of species have a bright or nearly bright gular spot.
2. nonce-use. Concerned with the appetite; devoted to good eating.
1854Fraser's Mag. XLIX. 104 The second..was..the founder of a gular academy, distinguishing himself by his treatise de opsoniis et condimentis.
3. ellipt. as n. A gular plate beneath the throat of a serpent or a fish.
1884–5Stand. Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 350 Posterior to the mental, and lying between the infralabials, are the submentals and gulars. |