dassie

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

das=sie

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun dassie has 1 sense

dassie(n = noun.animal) coney, cony, das, hyrax - any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes; Array

is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal

is a member of family procaviidae, procaviidae

has particulars: procavia capensis, rock hyrax, rock rabbit

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

dassie, n. S.Afr.
1 the Cape hyrax Procavia capensis. Also called rock-rabbit (see ROCK(1)).
2 a small coastal fish Diplodus sargus with rows of black stripes.

Etymology

Afrik. f. Du. dasje dimin. of das badger

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