dewlapped
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dewlapped (not comparable)
- Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).
- yellow-dewlapped lizards
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- When we were boys, / Who would believe that there were mountaineers / Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them / Wallets of flesh?