jugular

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: jug=u=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

jugular, a. [L. jugulum the collar bone, which joins together the shoulders and the breast, the throat, akin to jungere to yoke, to join: cf. F. jugulaire. See Join.].

•  Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes.  [1913 Webster]

jugular, n. [Cf. F. jugulaire. See Jugular, a.].

•  One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

jugular, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of the neck or throat.
2 (of fish) having ventral fins in front of the pectoral fins.
--n. = jugular vein.

Idiom

jugular vein any of several large veins of the neck which carry blood from the head.

Etymology

LL jugularis f. L jugulum collar-bone, throat, dimin. of jugum YOKE