Adam's Apple

Adam's Apple, the popular name given to the projection in the fore-part of the neck formed by the anterior extremity of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx; so called from the notion that it was caused by a bit of the forbidden fruit which stuck in Adam's throat. The same name is applied to the fruit of a variety of the lime with a kind of depression on the surface, in which the Italian peasants see the mark of Adam's teeth. The name is also used for the Forbidden Fruit (q.v.).