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Taygetan

Taygetan adjective: of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.

Adjective (1)

Taygetan (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.
    • Citheron shouts;—gives tongue Taygetan hound; / And Epidaurus for the break renown’d: / While echoing groves reverberate the sound.1852, [Virgil], translated by E. Cobbold, The Georgics of Virgil (in Heroic Couplets). […], London: E. Lumley, book III, lines 61–63, page 105

Adjective (2)

Taygetan (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the star system Taygeta in the Pleiades star cluster.

Noun

Taygetan (plural Taygetans)

  1. An alien being from the vicinity of Taygeta.

Forms of Taygetan

pluralTaygetans

Origin of Taygetan

From Tayget(os) + -an.

From Taygeta + -an.

Questions about Taygetan

What does Taygetan mean?
Taygetan means of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.
What part of speech is Taygetan?
Taygetan can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Taygetan in the dictionary

  1. Tayeh
  2. Tayene
  3. Tayes
  4. tayga
  5. Taygeta
  6. Taygetan
  7. Taygete
  8. Taygetos
  9. Taygetus
  10. Tayk
  11. tayl

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