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Meaning of satyrs

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

satyrs

noun

Definitions

  1. A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

    Synonyms:satyr

  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.

noun

Definitions

  1. A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.

  2. (by extension) A lecherous man.

  3. Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.

  4. The orangutan.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faunhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satyrhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satyrs

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