tragus
Americannoun
noun
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the cartilaginous fleshy projection that partially covers the entrance to the external ear
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any of the hairs that grow just inside this entrance
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Origin of tragus
1685–95; < Late Latin < Greek trágos hairy part of ear, literally, he-goat
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Tumbling weeds are not uncommon, but no other species have been so large or as devoid of natural predators as S. tragus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
A sideburn that stops short of the bottom of the tragus will pass inspection most anywhere.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2014
CHAMOIS, the Franco-Swiss name of an Alpine ruminant known in the German cantons as Gemse, and to naturalists as Rupicapra tragus or R. rupicapra tragus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
The conch of the ear very large, and joined together on the top of the head; tragus large and bifurcated; nasal membranes complicated; no tail; wings remarkably ample.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
We should thus pass before us, in artistic expression, and therefore in universal appeal, the historic drama of the great civic past, the mingled present, the phantasmagoria and the tragi comedy of both of these.
From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick
Yesterday I sent off my tragi comedy to Mr. Kemble.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
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