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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, the lower back part of the neck; the scruff of the neck, just below the nape. Illiger; Sundevall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The part of the neck nearest the back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
posterior portion of theneck inbirds .
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