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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dewlapped en · ADJ

Etymology

From dewlap + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).
    • yellow-dewlapped lizards
    • When we were boys, / Who would believe that there were mountaineers / Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them / Wallets of flesh? 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

Translations (1)

sa मल्ह (having dewlaps)