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

It is not provided, like so many other tropical lizards, with a gular sac or throat-pouch, capable of inflation when in a state of high excitement.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

The Bustard, huge Rasor, with gular pouch long, With legs formed for running, and beak that is strong, Whose presence this island regards now as rare.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 by Various

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.