Adam's apple

Noun

Adam's apple (plural Adam's apples)

1. The 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 posterity1662 [1651], Nicholas Culpeper, Abdiah Cole, transl., Bartholinus Anatomy, London: Peter Cole, translation of Protuberantia illa in collo anterius conspicua, dicitur Pomum Adami; [quia vulgo...
   • 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.1911, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The New Machiavelli, London: John Lane; The Bodley Head […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   Adam's morsel, apple, apple of Adam, laryngeal prominence, goozle

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

   Synonyms:

   crape jasmine, pinwheel flower, Nero's crown, butterfly gardenia, carnation of India, East Indian rosebay, Tabernaemontana coronaria, coffee rose, crepe gardenia

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...1597, John Gerarde, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, London: John Norton, page 1281