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Raresatyrs
The correct spelling is satyrs.
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noun
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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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noun
- 1.A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- 2.Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
- 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.(by extension) A lecherous man.
- 5.Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
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