Yeti

Quick meaning: Yeti is a noun meaning (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

Meaning

(cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

Example Sentences

There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.

The Sherpas had no hesitation in pronouncing them to be those of a Snowman or "Yeti" (not "mirka" as Mr.Smythe's Tibetans had it), and they thought he was the smaller man-eating variety and not his larger yak-eating brother.[…]They may even have been our friend ursus arctoc pruinosus, but they were no more like the tracks of our "Yeti" than those of a two-toed anteater or an armadillo.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bigfoot, creature, menk, cryptid, yakin, yahoo.

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