gular

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Two discoveries made by the team while conducting fieldwork at Lavernock were the fossilized remains of a placodont osteoderm, and a single coelacanth gular bone.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

They are practicing what scientists call gular fluttering — panting.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2016

"Speak, First Officer," said the Lyran, his gular pouches throbbing.

From Join Our Gang? by Lanier, Sterling E.

Rhynchophora: that section of Coleoptera, in which the head is produced into a snout, at the end of which the mouth structures are situated; gular sutures confluent: prosternal sutures wanting: the weevils.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Gopherus berlandieri, the closest relative of G. flavomarginatus in a geographic sense, has a highly arched shell and pronglike gular projections, between which there is nearly always a deep notch.

From A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico by Legler, John M.