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HYRAX
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Irregular inflected form: hyraces
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
Synonyms:
coney; cony; das; dassie; hyrax
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hyrax" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hyrax"):
Procavia capensis; rock hyrax; rock rabbit (hyrax that lives in rocky areas)
Holonyms ("hyrax" is a member of...):
family Procaviidae; Procaviidae (includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea)
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