Nuchal

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  • n. The back of the neck
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the back or nape of the neck.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the nucha or nape: as, the nuchal muscles.
  • In entomology:
  • Situated superiorly, just behind the head: said especially of ornaments, processes, etc., on an insect-larva.
  • Of or pertaining to the metanotal nucha.
  • In the trilobites, relating to the axial segment and groove at the base of the cephalon.
  • n. One of two or more plates forming part of the covering of the dorsal portion of the neck in reptiles. The term is usually applied to the well-marked bony plates of crocodiles but also, as in lizards, to horny plates or shields.
    • Word Usage
    ""Citation: 'Dietary sequestration of defensive steroids in nuchal glands of the Asian snake Rhabdophis tigrinus' by Deborah A. Hutchinson, Akira Mori, Alan H. Savitzky, Gordon M. Burghardt, Xiaogang Wu, Jerrold Meinwald, and Frank C. Schroeder.""
    Form
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nucha    nape   
     
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