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noun

gula, gulae n. (pl. L. gulae, E. gulas)

(Zool.)

(a)

The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

(b)

A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

(Arch.) A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.

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Etymology of 'Gula'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gula" Quotes from Famous Books

... Norway during the last century, and I remember it as a very lovely story indeed, with honest studies of character among the Norwegians, and a tender pathos in the fate of the little Lap heroine Gula, who was perhaps sufficiently romanced. The hero was a young Dane, who was going up among the fiords to seek his fortune in the northern fisheries; and by a process inevitable in youth I became identified with him, so that I adventured, and enjoyed, and suffered in his person throughout. ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... in the membranous parts of the system, as of the rectum intestinum, the urethra, the gula or throat; and of this kind is the verucca or wart, and the clavus pedum, or corns on the toes. A wen sometimes arises on the back of the neck, and sometimes between the shoulders; and by distending the tendinous fascia produces ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

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