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hyrax
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hyrax has 1 sense
- hyrax(n = noun.animal) coney, cony, das, dassie - 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
CIDE DICTIONARY
hyrax, n. [NL., fr. Gr. shrew mouse.].
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 (Hyrax Syriacus ) of Palestine, and the klipdas (Hyrax capensis ) of South Africa. Other species are Hyrax arboreus and Hyrax Sylvestris , the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hyrax, n. any small mammal of the order Hyracoidea, including rock-rabbit and dassie.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk hurax shrew-mouse
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