dewlapped

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adjective

Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).

“yellow-dewlapped lizards”

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Meanings

adjectivedewlapped (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving dewlaps (of a specified kind).

    yellow-dewlapped lizards

    1 more example

    When we were boys, / Who would believe that there were mountaineers / Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them / Wallets of flesh?

    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]

Origin

From dewlap + -ed.

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APA

dewlapped. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dewlapped

MLA

“dewlapped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dewlapped. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dewlapped,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dewlapped.

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