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hyrax
n.
small plant-eating mammal with a short tail that lives among rocks in desert areas and is found in Africa and Arabia
Hyrax
Hyraxes (from the Greek ,
hurax, "shrewmouse"), also called
dassies, are small, thickset, herbivorous
mammals in the
order Hyracoidea. Hyraxes are well-furred, rotund animals with short tails. Typically, they measure between long and weigh between . They are often mistaken for
rodents, but are more closely related to
elephants and
manatees.
hyrax
Noun
1. any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
(synonym) coney, cony, dassie, das
(hypernym) placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
(hyponym) rock hyrax, rock rabbit, Procavia capensis
(member-holonym) Procaviidae, family Procaviidae
hyrax
nm.
hyrax, small plant-eating mammal with a short tail that lives among rocks in desert areas, and is found in Africa and Arabia
Hyrax
(n.)
Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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