| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  thr t |
| NOUN: | 1. The anterior portion of the neck. 2. Anatomy The portion of the digestive tract that lies between the rear of the mouth and the esophagus and includes the fauces and the pharynx. 3. A narrow passage or part suggestive of the human throat: the throat of a horn. 4. Botany The opening of a tubular corolla or calyx where the tube joins the limb. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: throat·ed, throat·ing, throats
To pronounce with a harsh or guttural voice. | | IDIOM: | ram (or shove) down (someone's) throat Informal To compel to accept or consider: always ramming his political opinions down my throat. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English throte, from Old English.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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