Pronounced: mis-oh-KY-nee-uh (ALT: mih-soh-KY-nee-uh), noun
Notes: Another useful word to know and use
Yesterday’s word
The word tragus is “the prominence in front of the external opening of the ear”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1600s
Background / Comments
When I saw our word, I confused it with “trocar”, which I heard in an episode in the fourth season of the drama Foyle’s War. I couldn’t properly remember the word, so I thought it might be our word. Our word has an unusual plural: it is tragi. Our word came from the Greek word tragos – it refers to the hairy part of the ear, but its literal meaning is “he-goat”.
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