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tor⋅quate

  [tawr-kwit, -kweyt]
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–adjective Zoology.
ringed about the neck, as with feathers or a color; collared.
Origin:
1655–65; < L torquātus adorned with a necklace, equiv. to torqu(ēs) twisted neck-chain + -ātus -ate 1
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tor·quate   (tôr'kwāt')   
adj.   Zoology
Having a ringlike or collarlike band or marking about the neck.

[Latin torquātus, from torquēs, collar; see torque2.]
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