The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.
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Troglodyte
//ˈtɹɑɡlədaɪt//
Synonyms for "troglodyte" (38 found)
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Related words (19)
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15 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τρωγλοδύτης noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 穴居人 noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Dutch
2 entries- holbewoner noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- holenmens noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Estonian
1 entries- koopaelanik noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Finnish
3 entries- fossiili noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
- luolamies noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodyytti noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
French
2 entries- troglodyte noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodyte noun (anything that lives underground)
Galician
1 entries- troglodita noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
German
2 entries- Höhlenmensch noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- Troglodyt noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Greek
2 entries- τρωγλοδύτης noun (anything that lives underground)
- τρωγλοδύτης noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
Japanese
2 entries- 穴居人 noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- 隠者 noun (person who chooses not to keep up to date)
Latvian
2 entries- alu cilvēks noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodīts noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- huleboer noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Polish
1 entries- troglodyta noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
Portuguese
2 entries- troglodita noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodita noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
Romanian
4 entries- troglodit noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodit noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
- troglodită noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodită noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
Russian
4 entries- отше́льник noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
- отше́льник noun (person who chooses not to keep up to date)
- пеще́рный челове́к noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- троглоди́т noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Spanish
4 entries- cavernícola noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodita noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- troglodita noun (anything that lives underground)
- troglodita noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
Swedish
4 entries- grottmänniska noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- grottmänniska noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
- stofil noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
- troglodyt noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
Turkish
2 entries- mağara adamı noun (member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves)
- mağara adamı noun (reclusive or out-of-date person)
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Inhabited as early as the Gallo-Roman era, the caves of the troglodytes are slighted in guidebooks, naturally overshadowed by the chateaus of the kings.
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Blair brought out the febrile intensity of Stanhope, wiring himself into his ever more circumscribed troglodyte world, speculating moodily on the worm that went down when it thought it was coming up. Robert Philp thought Blair's ...
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