| adam's apple | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. adam's apple, coffee rose, crape jasmine, crepe gardenia, crepe jasmine, east indian rosebay, nero's crown, pinwheel flower, tabernaemontana divaricate | tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand. |
| ~ genus tabernaemontana, tabernaemontana | evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap. |
| ~ bush, shrub | a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems. |
| n. (body) | 2. adam's apple, thyroid cartilage | the largest cartilage of the larynx. |
| ~ cartilage, gristle | tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults. |
| ~ larynx, voice box | a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech. |
| ankle | | |
| n. (body) | 1. ankle, ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint | a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus. |
| ~ anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus | the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint. |
| ~ leg | a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle. |
| ~ articulatio plana, gliding joint | a freely moving joint in which the articulations allow only gliding motions. |
| anklebone | | |
| n. (body) | 1. anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus | the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint. |
| ~ bone, os | rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates. |
| ~ ankle, ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint | a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus. |
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