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tragelaphic

tragelaphic adjective: hybrid; neither fish nor fowl.

Adjective

tragelaphic (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Hybrid; neither fish nor fowl.
    • And he who has ever felt what it means in our present tragelaphic humanity to find a harmonious being, swinging on his own axis, unimpeded and free from dissimulation, will understand my happiness and amazement when I discovered Schopenhauer.1909, Maximilian A. Mügge (summarizing Friedrich Nietzsche), “Unseasonable Contemplations—Schopenhauer as Educator”, in Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Work, page 122
    • […] I have composed a tragelaphic sort of work, partly a work of classics, partly of philosophy, partly of literary criticism, full of quotations acknowledged and deformed, indebted to various and perhaps not always compatible approaches.1998, Alexander Nehamas, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, →ISBN, page 188

Origin of tragelaphic

From tragelaphus + -ic.

Questions about tragelaphic

What does tragelaphic mean?
Tragelaphic means hybrid; neither fish nor fowl.
What part of speech is tragelaphic?
Tragelaphic is an adjective.

Words near tragelaphic in the dictionary

  1. tragedy mask
  2. tragedy masks
  3. tragedy of the commons
  4. tragelaph
  5. tragelaphi
  6. tragelaphic
  7. tragelaphine
  8. tragelaphines
  9. tragelaphs
  10. tragelaphus
  11. Trager

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