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The correct spelling is satyrs. A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

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  1. 1.A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
  2. 2.Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
  3. 3.A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
  4. 4.(by extension) A lecherous man.
  5. 5.Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.

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