| 单词 | goat-antelope |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat-antelope goat-antelope n. any of a group of ruminant mammals of the subfamily Caprinae having characteristics of both goats and antelopes; (occasionally) any animal of this subfamily.The goat-antelopes belong to the tribes Rupicaprini (or Naemorhedini) (the chamois, goral, serow, and mountain goat) and Ovibovini (the musk ox and takin). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Rupicaprinae > genus Nemorhaedus (goral) deer-goat1607 goat-antelope1806 thar1828 goral1834 serow1847 1806 New & Compl. Amer. Encycl. II. 325/2 The goat antelope of Linnæus..has straight, slender, distinctly annulated horns. 1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 258 Nearly allied to the gorals are the..serows, or goat-antelopes. 1925 C. Wells Six Years in Malay Jungle 226 The serow or goat antelope occurs in fair numbers in remote or almost untraversable localities. 1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard (1987) ii. 79 He locates two Himalayan tahr, an archaic animal that is a transitional form between goat-antelopes and goats. 2010 Trail Spring 96/1 Tatra chamois, an endangered species of goat-antelope found only in this part of the world. < as lemmas |
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