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Webster 1913 Edition

Steatopyga

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Steˊa-top′y-ga

(-tŏp′ĭ-gȧ)

,

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

στέαρ

,

στέατος

, fat +

πυγή

the buttocks.]

A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot (Khoikhoi) women.