Definition of Hirax
||Hy"rax (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;
shrew mouse.] (Zoöl.) Any animal of the genus
Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute
the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H.
Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of
South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H.
Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from
Western, Africa. See Daman.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a small, ungulate herbivorous mammal with a bulky frame and fanglike incisors (Procaviidae).
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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