Definitionn. any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
Last update: June 27, 2015
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That of the alpine zone includes two species of dassy (Pr ocavia), a coney (Hyrax), and a rat (Otomys). [Please select]
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This description applies to the Syrian Hyrax of our day as truly as it did to that of the Psalmists time. [Please select]
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As an instance, we may mention the little Daman, or Hyrax, a native of Africa and Asia Minor, and of which there are two or three distinct species. [Please select]
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Putting it interrogatively, we may ask, How is it that the hyrax, whose "anatomical structure proves it to be a rhinoceros," is _not_ a rhinoceros in habits, appearance, nor, in fact, in anything but the shape of its bones. [Please select]
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Despite anatomic theories, then, we shall continue to regard the hyrax-- the coney of the Scriptures--as a _rabbit, and not a rhinoceros_. [Please select]
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"The skeleton of the rhinoceros viewed generally has a resemblance to that of the little hyrax, the tapir, and the horse." [Please select]
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And if, for example, we were to call the Hyracotherium a Hyrax beast it would not be a name, but a description, and not a bit more intelligible. [Please select]
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