tragus
Americannoun
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tragi
plural
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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The handheld device, developed by Afferent Medical Solutions, uses two small clips positioned on the tragus, the small flap of cartilage located just in front of the ear canal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
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 average length-height index, taken from the tragus to the vertex, of the same persons, was 69.8—maximum 75.6, minimum 65.1 for the men; and for the women 73.1—maximum 76.6, minimum 70.2.
From The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition by Fay-Cooper Cole
Yesterday I sent off my tragi comedy to Mr. Kemble.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
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 Patrick Geddes
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