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Definition of hyrax in English: hyraxnoun ˈhʌɪraksˈhaɪˌræks A small herbivorous mammal with a compact body and a very short tail, found in arid country in Africa and Arabia. The nearest relatives to hyraxes are the elephants and other subungulates. 蹄兔 Family Procaviidae and order Hyracoidea: three genera and several species Example sentencesExamples - The hyrax - elephant - sirenian core is well-accepted on morphological grounds.
- Less certain are manatees, aardvarks, and hyraxes.
- So do wombats, hyraxes, aye-ayes, and lagomorphs, to give a few examples chosen from modern mammals.
- The hyrax remarked wryly, ‘Looks like somebody beat us to it, m'friend.‘
- The so-called ‘dawn horse’, or Eohippus, was most likely not related to horses at all, but was very like a modern-day hyrax - that is, a rock badger or coney.
- Tour archaeological sites in Jerusalem and Masada, hike through desert canyons to see hyrax and ibex.
- Some of these dassies, these hyraxes, went into the rocks, but this one actually climbs into the treetops.
- From the molecular viewpoint, however, the phylogenetic relationship among elephants, sirenians, and hyraxes remains confused.
- Nick responded to my post about Badger's God with a link to a nice picture of the hyrax or rock badger that appears in the Bible.
OriginMid 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek hurax 'shrew-mouse'. Definition of hyrax in US English: hyraxnounˈhīˌraksˈhaɪˌræks A small herbivorous mammal with a compact body and a very short tail, found in arid country in Africa and Arabia. The nearest relatives to hyraxes are the elephants and other subungulates. 蹄兔 Family Procaviidae and order Hyracoidea: three genera and several species Example sentencesExamples - Tour archaeological sites in Jerusalem and Masada, hike through desert canyons to see hyrax and ibex.
- Nick responded to my post about Badger's God with a link to a nice picture of the hyrax or rock badger that appears in the Bible.
- Some of these dassies, these hyraxes, went into the rocks, but this one actually climbs into the treetops.
- Less certain are manatees, aardvarks, and hyraxes.
- The so-called ‘dawn horse’, or Eohippus, was most likely not related to horses at all, but was very like a modern-day hyrax - that is, a rock badger or coney.
- From the molecular viewpoint, however, the phylogenetic relationship among elephants, sirenians, and hyraxes remains confused.
- The hyrax - elephant - sirenian core is well-accepted on morphological grounds.
- The hyrax remarked wryly, ‘Looks like somebody beat us to it, m'friend.‘
- So do wombats, hyraxes, aye-ayes, and lagomorphs, to give a few examples chosen from modern mammals.
OriginMid 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek hurax ‘shrew-mouse’. |