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Definition of Troglodytic
1. a. Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.
Definition of Troglodytic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Troglodytic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troglodytic
Literary usage of Troglodytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Excava- though the value of the Gezer exca- tions; The vations is in some respects
far greater troglodytic than at either of the other places Period, ..."
2. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2001)
"The ' troglodytic caves ' of the rocky coast of Lampedusa supply 'the hard ...
the troglodytic caves of Hunter's Lampedusa, although we must acknowledge, ..."
3. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1849)
"very distinctly assigns cinnamon not to Ceylon, but to the country immediately
in the rear of the troglodytic coast, or, to use his own word, ..."
4. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1860)
"THE Hivites in Mount Se'yr' appear to have founded several cities: a great part
of the population, however, certainly retained the old troglodytic mode of ..."
5. Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients by Morgan George Watkins (1896)
"... different accounts of ancient and modern Pygmies be weighed, it will be found
that either monkeys or aboriginal troglodytic tribes are ..."
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