Anat. and Zool. [L. jugulum collar-bone, also neck, throat, dim. formation from jug-, stem of jungĕre to join.] A name for the collar-bone; also for the throat, or the lower front part of the neck, esp. in birds; in Entom. applied to corresponding parts in insects.
1706. Phillips, Jugulum, the fore-part of the Neck, where the Wind-pipe is; the Neck-bone, Throat-bone, or Channel-bone: Also, the upper Breast-bone.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 526. Jugulum. This part, which may be regarded as analogous to the throat in vertebrate animals, lies between the cheeks…. It is particularly conspicuous and elevated in the Lamellicorn beetles.
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 215. Plumage brown above, fulvous beneath; throat and jugulum black.
