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    HYRAX

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    Irregular inflected form: hyraces  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toesplay

    Synonyms:

    coney; cony; das; dassie; hyrax

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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