a Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, having a dense woolly pinkish-brown fleece prized as the source of shahtoosh wool: now close to extinction due to illegal slaughter for its fleece
Word origin
C19: probably from Tibetan
chiru in American English
(ˈtʃɪruː)
noun
a goat antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, of Tibet, the male of which has very long, straight horns
Also called: Tibetan antelope
Word origin
[perh. ‹ Nepali jarayo]
Examples of 'chiru' in a sentence
chiru
The chiru was being hunted to extinction for the sake of glamour.