▪ I. ‖ gula
(ˈgjuːlə)
[L. gula throat (hence, appetite).]
† 1. a. The external throat. b. The gullet, or that which answers to it in the lower animals. Obs.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 148 In þe fore partie of þe necke þere is gula, þe which þat strecchiþ from þe chyn down to þe forke of þe brest. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd. b 8 Neere to the mouth is a venter, like the craw of birds, after which is the gula, to which the intestine is joyned, which is single. |
2. Ent. ‘The chitinous plate which supports the submentum in many Insecta’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 367 Gula (the gula), the lower part of the neck. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 403 The part called gula which in many insects is a large plate confluent with the epicranium above and supporting the submentum anteriorly. |
▪ II. gula
see gola.