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Nucha

//ˈnjuːkə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The spinal cord. obsolete
  2. 2
    the back side of the neck wordnet
  3. 3
    The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head. dated, rare

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.

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