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

Derived forms: Adam's apples

Type of: bush, cartilage, gristle, shrub

Part of: genus Tabernaemontana, larynx, Tabernaemontana, voice box

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Adalia bipunctata
Adam
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adamance
adam-and-eve
adamant
adamantine
adamantly
Adams
Adam's apple
Adam's needle
Adam's needle-and-thread
Adam's Peak
Adams-Stokes syndrome
Adana
adangle
Adansonia
Adansonia digitata
Adansonia gregorii
Adapa