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n. A decorative flap or loose fold on a garment or headdress.

n. A flaplike structure, such as the wattle of a bird or the lobe of the ear.

n. A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

v. To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.

n. A small decorative fold or flap, esp. of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

v. To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.

n. An obsolete form of lap.

A little lap, flap, or pendant, especially on a coat or a head-dress.

In ornithology, a wattle or other fleshy process hanging from a bird's head.

One of certain bombycid moths, as Lasiocampa quercifolia: an English book-name. The small lappet is

To cover with or as with a lappet.

n. In biology, a small lobe-shaped organ, such as the lappets of certain nemertean larvæ, etc.

n. Same as tegula.

n. In paleontology, an ear-like crest formed in some nautiloid cephalopods, as Lituites and Ophidioceras, by an extension of the lateral margins of the aperture of the shell.

n. a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

n. medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars

n. a small lap on a garment or headdress

"The mountains support a population of the lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotus), significant in the Middle East since the species is threatened and declining in the region; it is listed as vulnerable on the 2000 IUCN Red List."

caruncle    caruncula    lasiocampid moth    lasiocampid    overlap    lap   

esopha-geal lappet    american lappet    marginal lappet   

lappeted    lappeting   

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