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Klipdachs
{
, Klip′das
,Klip′dachsˊ
}Noun.
[D.
klip
cliff + das
badger, akin to G. dachs
.] (Zool.)
A small mammal (
Hyrax Capensis
), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit
. Definition 2024
klipdachs
klipdachs
English
klipdaches
Noun
klipdachs (plural klipdachses)
- A small mammal (Hyrax capensis), found in South Africa, that closely resembles the daman.
- 1863, Georg Hartwig, The Tropical World: a Popular Scientific Account of the Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms in the Equatorial Regions, page 395:
- But if he succeeds in seizing the klipdachs before it has time to leap away, he carries it to a rocky ledge, and slowly tears it to pieces.
- 1881, William Henry Giles Kingston, In the Wilds of Africa: A Tale for Boys, page 306:
- He knew that in time the poor silly little klipdachs would grow careless, and, anxious for a game at play, would get too far from their homes to skip back before he could be down upon them.
- 1971, Karl Mauch & F. O. Bernhard, Karl Mauch: African Explorer, page 153:
- The klipdachs (hierax) and the klipspringer (Oreotragus saltatrix) are the prevalent population, now however threatened with extinction.
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