Home › Words › T › taygetantaygetantaygetan · adj — of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, taygetan ranks #29,437 of 43,042 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Tayget(os) + -an.adjOf or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.e.g.“Citheron shouts;—gives tongue Taygetan hound; / And Epidaurus for the break renown’d: / While echoing groves reverberate the sound.” — 1852, [Virgil], translated by E. Cobbold, The Georgics of Virgil (in Heroic Couplets). […], London: E. Lumley, book III, lines 61–63, page 105:Of, from, or pertaining to the star system Taygeta in the Pleiades star cluster.nounAn alien being from the vicinity of Taygeta.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).