nagas

Noun (1)

naga (plural nagas)

1. (Australia) A loincloth.
   • Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […]1926 October 30, The Sydney Morning Herald

Noun (2)

naga (plural nagas)

1. (Indian mythology) A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.
   • The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 257
2. (slang) A fictional creature with the lower body of a snake, and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version thereof, or of a human or another humanoid creature. The serpentine equivalent of a taur.
   • Coordinate term: lamia

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