gorgelet

noun — 2 senses

gorgelet

noun

1

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology 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:

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