takinn.
/ˈtɑːkɪn/, U.S. /ˈtɑkᵻn/ A large, heavily built, slow-moving but agile goat-antelope, Budorcas taxicolor, native to the eastern Himalayas from Bhutan to north central China, which has large horns and a shaggy coat and lives at high altitude in summer.The species is sometimes considered as divided into three or four distinct subspecies.
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1850 B. H. Hodgson in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 (1851) 19: Pt. i 65 The large, massive and remarkable animal, denominated Tákin by the Mishmis, and Kin by the Khamtis, is one of the group of Bovine Antelopes.]
1850 B. H. Hodgson in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 (1851) 19: Pt. i 67 There is in the muzzle of the Tákin neither the nudity nor the breadth of that of the Ox and Gnoo.
1857 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 9 44 This latter [group of oxen] contains the Yak, the Takin (Budorcas taxicola [sic], Hodgson, a very remarkable Ruminant from the eastern Himalayas), and the Musk Ox of the Arctic regions.
1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs iv. 142 No English sportsman has ever shot a takin.
1909 Daily Chron. 23 June 5/5 The Zoological Society has just received..a fine young example of the takin, which, next to the okapi, is the rarest and least known of the ruminants... Takins are heavily built and powerful animals, an adult male standing three and a half feet high at the shoulder.
1958 R. Garnett tr. B. Heuvelmans On Track of Unknown Animals ii. 44 The golden takin (B. bedfordi), not discovered until 1911, is even more interesting than the two others.
2005 Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 17/7 The national animal of Bhutan is an ungulate called a takin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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