Tragus Definition

trāgəs
tragi
noun
The fleshy, cartilaginous protrusion at the front of the external ear, partly extending over the opening of the ear.
Webster's New World
Any of the hairs growing at the entrance to the meatus of the external ear.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Tragus

Noun

Singular:
tragus
Plural:
tragi

Origin of Tragus

  • New Latin from Greek tragos goat, hairy part of the ear

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tragus Sentence Examples

  • The Ungulata are represented by the chamois (Rupicapra tragus) and the bouquetin or steinbock (Capra ibex).

  • The earliest known descriptions of the foxglove are those given by Leonhard Fuchs and Tragus about the middle of the 16th century, but its virtues were doubtless known to herbalists at a much remoter period.

  • In Tragus the glumes bear numerous short hooked bristles.

  • Weeds are very numerous (about 125); and some, notably the sand-bur (Solanum rostratum) cockle-bur, and tumble-weeds among indigenous, and the Russian thistle (Salsola tragus) and purslane among non-indigenous species, are agricultural pests.

  • It has squarish ears and a short curved tragus with a blunt round end.

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