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Definition of Chiru
1. a Tibetan antelope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiru
Literary usage of Chiru
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Dr. Murie notices the inflation of the post-maxilla in the saiga, and states that
a similar extension is to be found in the chiru. No. 460. ..."
2. Chinese Clay Figures by Berthold Laufer (1914)
"LA WADDELL' reports under chiru, "None were seen and the people did not ...
In Anglo-Indian nomenclature we now find two words in use, chiru and seru, ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1834)
"The chiru with his bluff bristly ... Hodgson again describes in detail the
maxillary tumours or accessory nostrils of the chiru Antelope. ..."
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