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ibex|ˈaɪbɛks|
Also 7 ibecks. Pl. ibexes, rarely ibices |ˈaɪbɪsiːz|.
[L. ibex (ibic-em) a kind of goat, a chamois.]
A species of wild goat (Capra ibex or Ibex ibex) inhabiting the Alps and Apennines, the male of which has very large strongly ridged recurved diverging horns, and hair of a brownish or reddish grey becoming grey in winter; the female, shorter horns and grey hair; also called bouquetin and steinbock. Extended to other species of the same genus or subgenus, inhabiting mountain-ranges in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 194 They inhabit..the Rocks or Mountains, but not the tops like the Ibecks. Ibid. 347 The Ibex..[some] take it to be a wilde Goat..these are bred in the Alpes, and are of an admirable celerity, although their heads be loaded with such horns, as no other Beasts of their stature beareth. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. ix. 140 Goats that are called Ibices. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. 38 The ibex resembles the goat in..shape. 1776Pennant Zool. (ed. 4) I. 34 The origin of the domestick goat is the Stein-boc, Ibex, or wild goat. 1878G. F. Maclear Joshua xv. (1880) 142 Numerous ibexes or Syrian chamois inhabit these cliffs. |