adam's apple

3 definitions found

adam's apple - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Adam \Ad"am\, n.
     1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the
        progenitor of the human race.
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     2. (As a symbol) "Original sin;" human frailty.
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              And whipped the offending Adam out of him. --Shak.
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     Adam's ale, water. [Coll.]
  
     Adam's apple.
  
     1. (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.
  
     Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
        
  
     Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca)
        of liliaceous plants.
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  Adam's apple \Ad"am's ap"ple\
     See under Adam.
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adam's apple - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Adam's apple
      n 1: tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal
           flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to
           Thailand [syn: crape jasmine, crepe jasmine, crepe gardenia
           , pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay,
           Adam's apple, Nero's crown, coffee rose,
           Tabernaemontana divaricate]
      2: the largest cartilage of the larynx [syn: thyroid   cartilage
         , Adam's apple]