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gorgelets

gorgelets is the plural of gorgelet.

Meaning of gorgelet

Noun

gorgelet (plural gorgelets)

  1. A small gorget of a bird.
    • The head mottled with brownish-black; spots of the same colour, descending in a line from the lower mandible to the upper part of the breast, forming an interrupted gorgelet.1831, John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography, volume 2, The Canada Flycatcher
  2. A small gorge.
    • It seemed to be warmer here at nights than farther upriver, probably because of the southern exposure through the nine gorgelets leading to the South rim.2000, Lewis S. Keizer, Eugene E. Whitworth, Astral Man to Cosmic Christ

Questions about gorgelets

What is gorgelets the plural of?
Gorgelets is the plural of gorgelet.

Words near gorgelets in the dictionary

  1. gorge hooks
  2. gorge walking
  3. gorge-walking
  4. gorged
  5. gorgelet
  6. gorgelets
  7. Gorgenson
  8. gorgeosities
  9. gorgeosity
  10. gorgeous
  11. gorgeously

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