ADAM'S APPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adam's apple mean? 

• ADAM'S APPLE (noun)
  The noun ADAM'S APPLE has 2 senses:

1. tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand

2. the largest cartilage of the larynx

  Familiarity information: ADAM'S APPLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAM'S APPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Adam's apple; coffee rose; crape jasmine; crepe gardenia; crepe jasmine; East Indian rosebay; Nero's crown; pinwheel flower; Tabernaemontana divaricate

Hypernyms ("Adam's apple" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Adam's apple" is a member of...):

genus Tabernaemontana; Tabernaemontana (evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The largest cartilage of the larynx

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

Adam's apple; thyroid cartilage

Hypernyms ("Adam's apple" is a kind of...):

cartilage; gristle (tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults)

Holonyms ("Adam's apple" is a part of...):

larynx; voice box (a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech)