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Webster 1913 Edition
markhor
‖
, Mark′hoorˊ
,mark′horˊ
Noun.
[Per.
mār-khōr
snake eater.] (Zool.)
A large wild goat (
Capra falconeri
syn. Capra megaceros
), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere. Definition 2024
markhor
markhor
English
Noun
markhor (plural markhors)
- A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, found in the western Himalayas.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, page 69:
- He was taught the legends of the Mess Plate, from the great grinning Golden Gods that had come out of the Summer Palace in Pekin to the silver-mounted markhor-horn snuff-mull presented by the last CO [...].
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, page 69:
Translations
Capra falconeri
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