throated

1. 1
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a throat of the type named by the word it is attached to.

   Works like "-haired" in "long-haired": the front word tells you what kind.

   Birdwatchers spotted a yellow-throated warbler feeding near the riverbank.

   The potter shaped a long-throated vessel meant for pouring oil.

   Similarnecked

   Note

   A noun turned adjective by -ed (throat plus the suffix), and it almost never stands alone. It needs a first element to say what kind of throat: yellow-throated, deep-throated, long-throated. The compound keeps its hyphen whether it comes before the noun (a white-throated bird) or after it (the bird is white-throated). Without that first word the form reads as the past of the verb instead.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of throat.

   Note

   This is the regular past form of a rare verb, and it shares its spelling with the compound adjective. The verb follows a subject or an auxiliary (he had throated a warning). The adjective needs a first element and a hyphen (a white-throated bird). The verb's main meaning, uttering something from the throat, is itself uncommon. An old British dialect use, mowing beans against the way they bend, is now obsolete.

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