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Hyrax

noun
(pl. hyraxes, hyraces)
1.
Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.  Synonyms: coney, cony, das, dassie.



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"Hyrax" Quotes from Famous Books



... circumstance is the 'Phascolotherium' more embryonic, or of a more generalized type, than the modern Opossum; or a 'Lophiodon', or a 'Paleotherium', than a modern 'Tapirus' or 'Hyrax'? ...
— Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life • Thomas H. Huxley


Words linked to "Hyrax" :   dassie, rock rabbit, placental mammal, placental, eutherian, eutherian mammal, Procaviidae, rock hyrax, cony, Procavia capensis, family Procaviidae


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