The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτείχος“wall”
- English todaytichorrhine
From Ancient Greek τείχος (teíkhos, “wall”) + -ῥῑνός, genitive of ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s, “nose”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tichorrhine
Today it means: Having a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose. Full definition →
Ancient Greek τείχος