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nucha

noun
/ˈnjuːkə/UK/ˈn(j)ukə/US

Etymology

From Middle English nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka, nuke (“spinal cord”), borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”). Doublet of nuque.

  1. derived from nucha — “spinal cord; nape of the neck”
  2. inherited from nucha

Definitions

  1. The spinal cord.

  2. The back of the neck, the nape

    The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nucha. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA