Adam's apple

Adam's applenoun

• 1

  anatomymedicinesciencesThe lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence.

  • That same bunch which is seen on the foreside of the Neck, is called Adams Apple, because the common people have a beliefe, that by the judgement of God, a part of that fatal Apple, abode sticking in Adams Throat, and is so communicated to his posterity
  • He was seated some way down a table at right angles to the one at which I sat, a man of mean appearance with a greyish complexion, thin, with a square nose, a heavy wiry moustache and a big Adam's apple sticking out between the wings of his collar.
• 2

  Any member of the species Tabernaemontana divaricata of fragrant houseplants, native to southeast Asia.

• 3

  Any of hybrid species Musa × paradisiaca, of cultivated bananas.

• 4

  A citron (Citrus limetta, syn. of Citrus medica).

  • The fourth [name of the citron] is named of diuers Pomum Assyrium, or Citron of Assyria, and may be Englished Adams apple, after the Italian name, and among the vulgar sort of Italians Lomie, of whom it is also called Pomum Adami, or Adams apple, and that came by the opinion of the commom rude people, who thinke it to be the same Apple, of which Adam did eate in Paradise when he transgressed Gods commandement