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Definition of dewlap in English: dewlapnoun ˈdjuːlapˈd(j)ulæp A fold of loose skin hanging from the neck or throat of an animal, especially that present in many cattle. Example sentencesExamples - In tree lizards, the male morphs are represented by differences in the coloration of the dewlap (throat fan) used in social communication.
- Common sites of injection in birds include the wing web, wattle, dewlap, and interdigitary skin.
- They're the bright, neon-green iguanas of mainland South America, garish, streetwise cousins of the clean-living marine iguanas of the Galápagos, with dangling dewlaps and a decadent string of fringe down their backs.
- Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
- Since 1960 the Southeast Asian nation has claimed the kouprey - an ox with spectacular crescent-shaped horns and a dewlap under its chin - as its national symbol.
- Wattle, OT congenital cervical tragus, is a term coined by Clarke1 to describe an unusual skin appendage found on the neck analogous to growths on the dewlaps of birds (turkeys, roosters, etc).
- Burchell's zebras can be distinguished from mountain zebras by the possession of ‘shadow stripes’ on the back and hindquarters, and the absence of a dewlap.
- Double chins and dewlaps, dimpled knees and canyon cleavages jiggle and shimmer in the harsh glare of the stage lights.
- I assure you that I make it a point to smile at least twice daily - to keep the dewlap under control.
- Androgen treatment of adult female tree lizards has also revealed potential genotypes underlying dewlap color in this species.
- The creature which is purely Indian is hump-backed, long horned, and sports a large dewlap.
- Exposed skin of the ceres, dewlaps, horns, bills or legs may be brightly colored red or blue.
- Dad was about five-foot-eight of brown-haired game show loser, a sausage-eating mutt in his mid-thirties, growing dewlaps and a gut, dressed in shorts and a Six Flags Over Georgia T-shirt.
- In this species, males exhibit one of three ARTs that are correlated with variation in dewlap color.
- They have a large dewlap or fatty lump on the back of the neck which, among other things, is useful for stopping the yoke from slipping off.
Origin Middle English: from dew and lap1, perhaps influenced by a Scandinavian word (compare with Danish doglæp). Definition of dewlap in US English: dewlapnounˈd(j)ulæpˈd(y)o͞olap A fold of loose skin hanging from the neck or throat of an animal, especially that present in many cattle. Example sentencesExamples - Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
- Burchell's zebras can be distinguished from mountain zebras by the possession of ‘shadow stripes’ on the back and hindquarters, and the absence of a dewlap.
- Wattle, OT congenital cervical tragus, is a term coined by Clarke1 to describe an unusual skin appendage found on the neck analogous to growths on the dewlaps of birds (turkeys, roosters, etc).
- They have a large dewlap or fatty lump on the back of the neck which, among other things, is useful for stopping the yoke from slipping off.
- In this species, males exhibit one of three ARTs that are correlated with variation in dewlap color.
- Exposed skin of the ceres, dewlaps, horns, bills or legs may be brightly colored red or blue.
- Since 1960 the Southeast Asian nation has claimed the kouprey - an ox with spectacular crescent-shaped horns and a dewlap under its chin - as its national symbol.
- The creature which is purely Indian is hump-backed, long horned, and sports a large dewlap.
- Double chins and dewlaps, dimpled knees and canyon cleavages jiggle and shimmer in the harsh glare of the stage lights.
- Common sites of injection in birds include the wing web, wattle, dewlap, and interdigitary skin.
- In tree lizards, the male morphs are represented by differences in the coloration of the dewlap (throat fan) used in social communication.
- I assure you that I make it a point to smile at least twice daily - to keep the dewlap under control.
- They're the bright, neon-green iguanas of mainland South America, garish, streetwise cousins of the clean-living marine iguanas of the Galápagos, with dangling dewlaps and a decadent string of fringe down their backs.
- Dad was about five-foot-eight of brown-haired game show loser, a sausage-eating mutt in his mid-thirties, growing dewlaps and a gut, dressed in shorts and a Six Flags Over Georgia T-shirt.
- Androgen treatment of adult female tree lizards has also revealed potential genotypes underlying dewlap color in this species.
Origin Middle English: from dew and lap, perhaps influenced by a Scandinavian word (compare with Danish doglæp). |