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Definition of: satyr
(sat′ər, sā′tər) noun
1. In Greek mythology, a woodland deity in human form, having pointed ears, pug nose, short tail and budding horns, and of wanton nature.
2. A very lascivious man.
3. Any butterfly of the family Agapetidae, commonly brown and gray with eyelike spots. [<L satyrus <Gk. satyros]
—sa·tyr· ic (sə·tir′ik) or ·i·cal adjective
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