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Definition: Tragus |
TragusNoun1. A small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tragus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Tragus \Tra"gus\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression part of the inner ear.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Tragus |
| English words defined with "tragus": Antitragus ♦ Post-tragus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tragus": Post-tragus. (references) |
Expression using "tragus": Rupicapra tragus. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tragus": Post-tragus. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tragus piercing | 74 |
tragus | 60 |
tragus jewelry | 21 |
picture piercing tragus | 7 |
tragus ring | 4 |
ear piercing tragus | 4 |
body jewelry tragus | 4 |
information piercing tragus | 3 |
earring tragus | 3 |
anti tragus piercing | 2 |
picture tragus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tragus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 耳屏. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 이주 (Emigrating, immigration, transplant). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | agustray | ||||
| Words rhyming with "tragus" (pronounced 'Tra"gus'): Argus, Choragus, Crataegus, fungus, Mundungus, Negus, Pemphigus, Sagus, Spatangus, Strategus, vagus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: argus, gaurs, guars, sugar, sutra, trugs. | |
-2 letters: arts, gars, gast, gats, gaur, grat, guar, gust, guts, rags, rats, ruga, rugs, rust, ruts, stag, star, sura, tags, tars, taus, trug, tsar, tugs, ursa, utas. | |
-3 letters: ars, art, gar, gas, gat, gut, rag, ras, rat, rug, rut, sag, sat, sau, tag, tar, tas, tau, tug. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dustrag, guitars, ragouts. | |
+2 letters: auguster, barguest, cutgrass, draughts, dustrags, fraughts, gastrula, gestural, grayouts, nutgrass, outbrags, outdrags, outrages, sastruga, sastrugi, zastruga, zastrugi. | |
+3 letters: ageratums, argentums, argonauts, arguments, assurgent, autogiros, autogyros, barguests, daughters, figurants, fruitages, gastrulae, gastrular, gastrulas, gauntries, graduates, grubstake, guardants, guitarist, gustatory, gutturals, hamstrung, laughters, ligatures, outargues, outglares, outranges, pasturage, pasturing, regulates, roughcast, runagates, rutabagas, signature, slaughter, stegosaur, strangury, straphung, subrogate, sugarcoat, sugariest, surrogate, surtaxing, truckages, tutorages, upgathers, upstaring, vulgarest, ziggurats. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 67 75 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- --. ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01100111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a g u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 0067 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548467738785 |
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