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/ˈɡjuːlə/ · adjective
(chiefly zoology) Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula (“the upper front of the neck next to the chin”) or the throat..
Iguanæ. [...] Inhabits America, on the gular pouch of the Iguana.
The back of the guana is very strongly serrated; and this, together with the gular pouch, which it has the power of extending or inflating occasionally to a great degree, gives a formidable appearance to an animal otherwise harmless.
The Field Woodpecker. P. Campestris. [...] Head, chin, and throat, black; front of neck, yellowish; gular streak black; body beneath, white. America.
THE SOFT-SHELLED TURTLE. Trionyx ferox. [...] Neck long, smooth, with a gular fold.
Cyclanosteus senegalensis. [...] The five gular callosities are very similar in disposition; but they vary greatly in form and size, compared with each other, in the different speciments of this species.
Evaporative cooling via the respiratory tract in birds is enhanced by increased movement of the air by panting or by gular flutter.
Ladyfishes are elongate, slender, and robust, with a terminal mouth and a deeply forked caudal fin. [...] Gular plate, located between limbs of lower jaw, is well developed.
Cnemidophorus maximus [...] Plates of the collar graduating in the posterior gular, the marginal largest, the series concave anteriorly in the middle. Anterior gulars abruptly larger, their median largest.
Use gular when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gular means (chiefly zoology) Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula (“the upper front of the neck next to the chin”) or the throat..
Common synonyms include cluster fig.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Iguanæ. [...] Inhabits America, on the gular pouch of the Iguana.
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