adam's apple Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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Ad"am's ap"ple
Definitions
  1. See under Adam.

Webster 1913