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Definition of Hyraces
1. hyrax [n] - See also: hyrax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyraces
Literary usage of Hyraces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sport in East Central Africa: Being an Account of Hunting Trips in by Frederick Vaughan Kirby (1899)
"Bowhill and Metcalfe—Charley—Leave Chikwawa—Koodoo —Scarcity of—Amusing
adventure—Hunting-dogs—Zambesi hyraces—Abnormal leopard—Buffalo—Sable antelope ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"On the other hand, fossil hyraces (not yet fully described) are met with in the
Eocene deposits of Egypt in company with the remains of ancestral ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"hyraces. Coney of the Bible. R: Lydekker. Sei. Am. S. 64: 3S2. D. 14, '07. Hyrax.
See hyraces. lago. See Shakespeare, W.—Othello, Ibbetson, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"These three species agree in that the females have but a single pair of teats (other
hyraces have three pairs), and the West Coast ope The habits of all the ..."
5. A Hunter's Camp-fires by Edward John House (1909)
"Three miles to the south of camp a sharp, ragged pinnacle rose out of the plain,
and after disturbing numerous copper-headed lizards and hyraces climbing ..."
6. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"The habits of all the conies (except the tree- hyraces) are much alike. The typical
Abyssinian species live in rocky or stony places, in communities, ..."
7. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"The species of the hyraces are well marked both externally and anatomically ;
but there ... Bruce evidently confounds these hyraces together as one species. ..."
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