thyroid gland

1. 1.

   located near the base of the neck

   Synonymsthyroid

   Broaderendocrine gland

Questions about thyroid gland

What does thyroid gland mean?

thyroid gland means "located near the base of the neck".

What is another word for thyroid gland?

Close synonyms include thyroid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thyroid gland a common word?

thyroid gland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.