Definitions for tragus

tragus tra·gus

Spelling: [trey-guh s]
IPA: /ˈtreɪ gəs/

Tragus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in tragus (agrstu).

Definitions for tragus

noun

  1. a fleshy prominence at the front of the external opening of the ear.

Origin of tragus

1685-95; Late Latin Greek trágos hairy part of ear, literally, he-goat

Examples for tragus

Manouvrier measures it in correspondence to the verticals erected from the tragus.

Auriculo-frontal radius: from the tragus or from the auricular point to the ophryon.

The distance from the vertex to the tragus is uniformly great.

The tragus ought normally to exceed the antitragus in dimensions.

They are large, and the tragus of the ear is well developed.

The ear has a tragus, and the tail is not produced to any great degree behind the interfemoral membrane.

The ears are about three-quarters of an inch in length and half an inch wide; the tragus half the length of the ear.

The ears are united together above the nose; the tragus is minute.

The required number may be read, corresponding to the point of the tragus.

The form of the ear is like that of the Whiskered Bat; so is the tragus, and the shape of the wings.

Word Value for tragus
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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