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Meaning of STEATOPYGA

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ste`a*top"y*ga\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, fat + ? the
buttocks.]
A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans
of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.

 

 

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