lappet

Plural: lappets

Noun

• A small, decorative flap or fold on a garment or headdress.
• a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
• a small lap on a garment or headdress
• medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars
• A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
• A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.
• A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
• A lobe (division of an organ).

Verb

• To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.

Examples

• He adorned his ’LAPPET’ with a Scrabble tile as a token of victory.
• Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.
• Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body.

Synonyms

lappet moth, wattle

Related Words

LAPPETED