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.

But one of the most singular properties of the bird is the presence in some of the fully-grown males of a pouch or gular sac, opening under the tongue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

Steganop′odes, an order of swimming birds, with all four toes webbed and a gular pouch—cormorants, frigate-birds, pelicans, gannets.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various