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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The projection of skin-covered cartilage in front of the meatus of the external ear.
  2. n. Any of the hairs growing at the entrance to the meatus of the external ear.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal.

Etymologies

  1. New Latin, from Greek tragos, goat, hairy part of the ear. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The fold of skin in front of the opening of the ear the tragus is an acupressure point for feeling full.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

  • “The flap called the tragus protects of the auditory meatus, or earhole.”

    Archive 2009-06-01

  • “It can also be used for other piercings, such as tragus or conchs, just to name a few.”

    We Blog A Lot

  • “I originally had a titanium barbell, which cost a mint but healed extremely well. i have since had it professionally changed to a surgical steel BCR .. which probably should have been titanium. anyway, i have the typical “tragus bump”, which is annoying me to no end.”

    Mint Titanium | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

  • “Article Source: ArticlesBase. com – Buying Bulk Jewellery tragus bump.?”

    Mint Titanium | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

  • “Hey, if you're not able to get the live goat, you could have people draw the tragus of the person next to them...”

    Creature Design Workshop Update

  • “Man, HOW could I have forgotten Dennis -- the source of the whole accurate ear/tragus/Darwin's tubercle/Liam Clancy's advice to Bob Dylan train of thought!”

    The Waterhouse Expedition: Border Problems

  • “I do have a tragus piercing and a helix orbital piercing.”

    Archive 2007-06-01

  • “Au debut je voulais stretcher mon nombril mais comme je l'ai retiré (je mettrais une foto de la cicatrice plus tard ... d't'facon elle est pas prete de partir donc on a l'temps) bref j'en etais ou ... oui donc: que ne pouvant pas stretcher mon nombril voila je fais le tragus qui etait prevu en deuxieme ...”

    pinku-tk Diary Entry

  • “Mon tragus est gonflé je ne peux ni maché ni parler ni rire ni sourire ...”

    pinku-tk Diary Entry

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  1. cartilaginous structure

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  1. nazia
  2. tragi
  1. chamois
  2. post-tragus
  1. tragicus
  2. rupicapra
  1. Antitragus
  2. antilobium
  1. burdock-grass
  2. tragal
  1. blanquette
  2. natalus
  1. nycteridæ
  2. wash-leather

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  • oroboros Even Dilbert gets into the action. A shame Scott couldn't work meatus in as well. Mar 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu More tragicomedy in the news. Aug 3, 2010

  • reesetee I think you may be right. :-) Jul 16, 2007

  • slumry Safe unless I get a hankering for cod wrap and stop by Silly's at the same time you do! Look for the woman staring surreptitiously at ears.

    Come to think of it, staring surreptitiously is probably akin to jumbo shrimp. Jul 16, 2007

  • slumry Yea, you should be safe. ;-) Jul 16, 2007

  • reesetee *glad slumry won't be checking out my ears any time soon, since we live on opposite sides of the country* ;-) Jul 16, 2007

  • slumry Oh dear, now I will be compelled to go about observing tragi to see if they are hairy. A little scientific survey. ;-) Jul 16, 2007

  • reesetee Odd, sionnach, that it derives from the same root as tragic. Makes a Wordie wonder.... ;-) Mar 2, 2007

  • chained_bear But this doesn't mean "hairy ear," and it doesn't refer only to people with hairy ears. Whether people with hairy ears look like goats or not is irrelevant. The word refers to a part outside your ear that everyone has, even people without hairy traguses (tragi?). Why that has anything to do with goats is beyond me. But very interesting, so thanks for posting the etymology. I say again... ?!?! Mar 1, 2007

  • reesetee Joke, seanahan. Joke. :-) Mar 1, 2007

  • seanahan Um, goats have very hairy ears. People with hairy ears look like goats. Seems like a pretty straight forward explanation. Mar 1, 2007

  • sionnach this word is tragic Mar 1, 2007

  • reesetee ?!?! too! How they got from goat to hairy part of the ear, I don't want to know. Mar 1, 2007

  • chained_bear ?!?! Mar 1, 2007

  • reesetee The etymology is even more bizarre:

    New Latin, from Greek tragos, goat, hairy part of the ear. Mar 1, 2007

  • chained_bear Wow. This is a weird word that doesn't sound at all like its meaning. Meatus is even weirder and sounds even less like its meaning! Mar 1, 2007

  • reesetee Ditto, trivet. Mar 1, 2007

  • trivet Gross, y'all!

    Meatus just made the hate list. Mar 1, 2007

  • reesetee Blecch! An even more ghastly image! Mar 1, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang sounds like a meat foetus.

    If God didn't want us to eat fetuses, why are they made out of meat? Mar 1, 2007

  • reesetee Eeew. Meatus. Doesn't it sound like it's supposed to be a big hunk of steak? Mar 1, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang cool. and cause of this word, I found meatus! Mar 1, 2007

  • reesetee that little flap of cartilage at the front of the opening of your ear Mar 1, 2007

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