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noun

Adam n.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

(As a symbol) "Original sin;" human frailty. "And whipped the offending Adam out of him."

Adam's ale, water. (Coll.)

Adam's apple.

(Bot.)

(a)

A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more.

(b)

A species of lime (Citris limetta).

The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.

Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).

Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

Adam's apple n. See under Adam.

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"Adam's apple" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ivy Ledbetter Lee were wondering to what college they would send him when he grew to be a big boy; when Robert Adamson was a page in the Georgia Legislature—as long ago as that, Tom Watson was waving his red head and prominent Adam's apple as a member of the State House of Representatives. In the mad and merry days of Bryanism he became a Populist Member of Congress. He was nominated for vice-president, to run on the Populist ticket with Bryan. Later he ran for president ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... all how tales travel," he doubtfully shook his head. "But don' you put no stock in him bein' a hill-billy! Long haih an' s'penders don' make no greenhorn. Dey never has yit, an' dey never will—any moh'n a Adam's Apple do; an' I got a Adam's Apple mahse'f, sech as 'tis! I got sumfin else, too!" He slowly closed one eye and looked ...

— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... at once and informed that the child probably has croup, so he may know what to take with him. While waiting for the physician the mother should apply over the front of the neck (in the region of Adam's apple), hot applications. These are best made of flannel wrung out of quite hot water every two or three minutes: also a hot mustard foot bath. When the physician takes charge of the case he will also direct the treatment for the following day in order that the ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... lunge. Garnache caught the blade almost on his hilt, and by the slightest turn of the wrist made a simultaneous presentment of his point at the other's outstretched throat. It took the fellow just above the Adam's apple, and with a horrid, gurgling cry he sank, stretched as he still was in the attitude of that murderous lunge that had proved ...

— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini

... and closed in cadence with the wild leaping of his Adam's apple. With difficulty he pacified his organs of speech, and presently the honey of hypocrisy filtered from the tip of his tongue. "Honey Tone! Honey Tone de uplifteh! Las' time I seed ...

— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley

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