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striges

striges is the plural of strix.

Meaning of strix

Noun

strix (plural strixes or striges)

  1. A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood.
    • What was distinctive about the strix was that […] it resembled an owl, or (to a lesser extent) a bat, being a winged, clawed creature, which flew by night and had a hideous screeching cry.2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 69

Questions about striges

What is striges the plural of?
Striges is the plural of strix.

Words near striges in the dictionary

  1. strigae
  2. strigate
  3. strigated
  4. strigeid
  5. strigeids
  6. striges
  7. strigged
  8. strigging
  9. strigid
  10. strigids
  11. strigiform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: striges (page history and authors); strix (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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