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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Adam \Ad"am\, n.
   1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the
      progenitor of the human race.

   2. (As a symbol) ``Original sin;'' human frailty.

            And whipped the offending Adam out of him. --Shak.

   {Adam's ale}, water. [Coll.]

   {Adam's apple}.

   1. (Bot.)
      (a) A species of banana ({Musa paradisiaca}). It attains a
          height of twenty feet or more. --Paxton.
      (b) A species of lime ({Citris limetta}).

   2. 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 \Ad"am's ap"ple\
   See under {Adam}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Adam's apple
     n 1: tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal
          flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to
          Thailand [syn: {crape jasmine}, {crepe jasmine}, {crepe
          gardenia}, {pinwheel flower}, {East Indian rosebay}, {Nero's
          crown}, {coffee rose}, {Tabernaemontana divaricate}]
     2: the largest cartilage of the larynx [syn: {thyroid cartilage}]