dewlap

Example Sentences

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The zebu, easily recognized by its big shoulder hump and pronounced dewlap, is more tolerant of heat and drought, and more resistant to some diseases, although it produces less milk.

From Seattle Times

What better way to wake up those tired eyes and add ballast to those sagging dewlaps than this curtain raiser to the Roaring Twenties?

From The Guardian

A green anole lizard with a bright red dewlaps.

From Scientific American

One of the largest is the Perentetron: a long-tailed endurance predator that stands tall above the ground and has a particularly long, robust neck and massive dewlap.

From Scientific American

The Ocellated turkey lacks a dewlap but it does have a snood – a bluish one rather than a reddish one.

From Scientific American