noun. A decorative flap or loose fold on a garment or headdress.

noun. A flaplike structure, such as the wattle of a bird or the lobe of the ear.

noun. An obsolete form of lap.

To cover with or as with a lappet.

A little lap, flap, or pendant, especially on a coat or a head-dress.

In ornithology, a wattle or other fleshy process hanging from a bird's head.

One of certain bombycid moths, as Lasiocampa quercifolia: an English book-name. The small lappet is

noun. In biology, a small lobe-shaped organ, such as the lappets of certain nemertean larvæ, etc.

noun. Same as tegula.

noun. In paleontology, an ear-like crest formed in some nautiloid cephalopods, as Lituites and Ophidioceras, by an extension of the lateral margins of the aperture of the shell.

noun. A small decorative fold or flap, esp. of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

noun. one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.

transitive verb. To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.

noun. A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

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

noun. a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

noun. medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars

noun. a small lap on a garment or headdress

"The mountains support a population of the lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotus), significant in the Middle East since the species is threatened and declining in the region; it is listed as vulnerable on the 2000 IUCN Red List."

american lappet  esopha-geal lappet  marginal lappet  

lappeted  lappeting  

caruncle  caruncula  lap  lasiocampid  lasiocampid moth  

arrondisement  canthus  checkerboard  encasement  gasbag  

crease  creasing  crimp  dog-ear  double