Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Zoology Having a ringlike or collarlike band or marking about the neck.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology, ringed about the neck; collared, as with a color, or by the peculiar texture, etc., of hair or feathers about the neck.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.
Etymologies
- Latin torquātus, from torquēs, collar; see torque2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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