tragus

Meanings

1. The small piece of thick cartilage on the inner side of the external ear that is immediately in front of and partly closing the ear canal.

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin tragus, from Ancient Greek τράγος (trágos, “he-goat; part of the ear”); with reference to a tuft of hair, likened to a goat’s beard, that may grow on the tragus, especially in older men.