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DEWLAP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dewlap mean?
• DEWLAP (noun)
The noun DEWLAP has 1 sense:
1. a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck
Familiarity information: DEWLAP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("dewlap" is a kind of...):
cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
Holonyms ("dewlap" is a part of...):
cervix; neck (the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body)
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