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pteruges

pteruges is the plural of pteruge.

Meaning of pteruge

Noun

pteruge (plural pteruges)

  1. (historical) A flexible feather-like strip of material at the edge of body or head armour, particularly used in Greco-Roman times, such as the flaps of a linothorax or the strips hanging from a Roman legionary's belt.
    • In Metope VI a mounted officer, probably the Emperor Trajan himself, wears a lorica squamata of very small scales with a double skirt of pteruges and a cingulum about the waist.1975, H. Russell Robinson, The Armour of Imperial Rome, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 160

Questions about pteruges

What is pteruges the plural of?
Pteruges is the plural of pteruge.

Words near pteruges in the dictionary

  1. pteroylmonoglutamic acid
  2. pteroyls
  3. pterror
  4. Pterry
  5. pteruge
  6. pteruges
  7. pterulaceous
  8. pteryg-
  9. pterygia
  10. pterygial
  11. pterygiate

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