Meanings
plural Elizabethan collars
- figurativelybiologyA protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or a dog, shaped like a truncated cone, to prevent the animal from biting or licking at its body or scratching at its head or neck while wounds or injuries heal.
Synonyms: buster collar, cone of shame, E-collar, pet cone, pet lamp-shade
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or a dog, shaped like a truncated cone, to prevent the animal from biting or licking at its body or scratching at its head or neck while wounds or injuries heal.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 伊麗莎白項圈 /伊丽莎白项圈
- 伊麗莎白項圈 /伊丽莎白项圈 (Yīlìshābái xiàngquān)protective medical device
Finnish kauluri
- kauluriprotective medical device
French collerette vétérinaire
- collerette vétérinaireprotective medical device
German Schutzkragen
- Schutzkragenprotective medical device
Portuguese colar elizabetano
- colar elizabetanoprotective medical device
Cite this entry
Elizabethan collar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Elizabethan%20collar
“Elizabethan collar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Elizabethan%20collar. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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