Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The nape of the neck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The nape or upper hind part of the neck, next to the hind-head.
- In entomology, the neck of the metanotum; the part of the thorax to which is joined the petiole of the abdomen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine, zoology, anatomy The
nape orback of theneck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the back side of the neck
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From the nose-root to the nucha over the head he measures 13 1/2 inches, and between upper ear-tips across and over the head 11 inches, which is so close to the eight-and ten-inch standard that he may be called mesocephalic.
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From the nose-root to the nucha over the head he measures 13 1/2 inches, and between upper ear-tips across and over the head 11 inches, which is so close to the eight-and ten-inch standard that he may be called mesocephalic.
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A sister of the Peruvian boy referred to had a still larger growth, extending from the nucha all over the back.
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Ok xcha [c] a chiquichin: Xpeul ru [c] ux huyu nu teleche nu cana, yx nucha [t], nunimal.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Kitzih vi chi at nucha [t], nunimal, xucheex [c] a; xa [c] a cha ri e chinamital, xeucheex, he [c] ari Telom Cahibak quibi.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Xcha [c] a chire Tol [c] om: Chinak catux? maat nucha [t] nu nimal.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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The foramens will be done on your nucha - there is an especially sensitive range of a brain.
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The foramens will be done on your nucha - there is an especially sensitive range of a brain.
Unknown Highway 2008
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L. cauda tereti longa: nucha fubcriflata, occipite callofo, dorfo ilriato.
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Habitat in America, gri/etis, fafciis pluri 'mis linearibiis olbis ad tatus hifurcatis; ad occiput utrinque macula trigoua alAit in nucha fubconjiiiens.
qms commented on the word nucha
Take care what you smoke in your hookah
Or find yourself joined by a pooka.
He'll be hid from your eye
But you'll know he's nearby
By the rising of hairs on your nucha.
September 6, 2014