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Definition of Dassie
1. Noun. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
Generic synonyms: Eutherian, Eutherian Mammal, Placental, Placental Mammal
Group relationships: Family Procaviidae, Procaviidae
Specialized synonyms: Procavia Capensis, Rock Hyrax, Rock Rabbit
Definition of Dassie
1. Noun. A small, herbivorous mammal in the order ''Hyracoidea''. The rock hyrax. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dassie
1. a hyrax [n -S] - See also: hyrax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dassie
Literary usage of Dassie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Annie Martin (1891)
"In appearance the dassie is very like a little brown guinea-pig; ... A not unlikely
solution of the dassie-adder mystery seems to be that in all probability ..."
2. Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony, with a by Henry Anderson Bryden (1889)
"Our mountains abounded with little rock- rabbits (das or dassie of the Dutch),
... It is said, and I believe with perfect truth, that the dassie-vanger will ..."
3. Abstracts of Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at Somerset House by James Henry Lea (1904)
"William John, Meredith Rosser, dassie John Mathew, dassie and Richard Powell; Thos.
... dassie Thomas Powell, Thos. William Bean, Hugh Morgan's ch. and Wm. ..."
4. The War in South Africa: Its Cause & Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"The witnesses in this case are all natives residing at dassie Klip, who knew the
assailants well. In one case a native called Karle was endeavouring to ..."
5. Traditions of the Covenanters by Robert Simpson (1846)
"dassie Da vie ! who the plague can this dassie Davie be, with all this army at
his back this morning 2 I plainly perceive," said he, turning an anxious look ..."
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