strigils
Meaning of strigils
plural noun
- an instrument with a curved blade used, especially by ancient Greeks and Romans, to scrape sweat and dirt from the skin in a hot-air bath or after exercise; a scraper.
- a comblike structure on the forelegs of some insects, used chiefly for grooming.
from Latin strigilis, from stringere ‘touch lightly’. The term in entomology dates from the late 19th century.
Information about strigils
- It is a name.
- The singular form of strigils is: strigil.
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Hyphenation of strigils
st-rig-ils
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- strigils is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with strigils
gils, ridgils, sigils, vigils, argils, pugils
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