silenus

IPA: sɪɫˈinʌs

Root Word: Silenus

noun

  • (Greek mythology) A companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.
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Examples of "silenus" in Sentences

  • The description of Silenus fits to a tee.
  • Inuus _vel_ Macacus silenus (_Lion Monkey_) 24 18.
  • Deep in penury, Silenus had to work as a common laborer.
  • Silenus refuses to go the poem is almost done, after all.
  • Silenus refers to the satyrs as his children during the play.
  • Silenus of course refuses to go the poem is almost done, after all.
  • The Shrike takes Silenus and impales him on the Tree of Pain anyway.
  • Silenus finds the silence of the city extremely conducive to writing.
  • Silenus hid his home and began cryonic hibernation to wait for her return.
  • The link between Bacchus and Hercules is confirmed by the figure of Silenus.
  • A prominent statue of Marsyas as a wise old silenus stood near the Roman Forum.
  • Is the male Macacus silenus furnished with longer hair than the female about the neck and face?
  • Macacus silenus L., an Indian ape.) has a great mane of hair round neck, and passing into large whiskers and beard.
  • There has been a certain amount of confusion between this animal and _Inuus silenus_, the lion monkey, which had the name _Wanderu_ applied to it by Buffon, and it is so figured in
  • i agree with silenus! do these MPs not listen to the mood of the public. i am astonished that beckett is even being considered for speaker especially with her track record on expenses. it's a joke!
  • Description: Forest fragmentation is threatening populations of the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) by separating sub-populations and restricting them to small fragments with high population densities.
  • The charismatic endangered lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) and Nilgiri macaque (Semnopithecus johnii) are other endemic species that need intact habitat and are highly threatened by habitat conversion.
  • (_Jerdon_), also Ceylon (_Cuvier_ and _Horsfield_), though not confirmed by Emerson Tennent, who states that the _silenus_ is not found in the island except as introduced by Arab horse-dealers occasionally, and that it certainly is not indigenous.

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