Definition of hyraxes Hyraxes
/hajˈɹæksʌz/ - [hayraksuz] - hy•rax•es
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What does hyraxes mean?
Wiktionary 
- hyraxes (Noun)
Plural of hyrax.
Part of speech
🔤- hyraxes, noun, plural of hyrax.
WordNet
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| hyrax - any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | ||
| coney, cony, dassie, das | ||
| eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | ||
| family procaviidae, procaviidae includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea | ||
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Wiktionary
- hyrax (Noun)
Any of several small, ungulate herbivorous mammals, of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors; they are native to Africa and the Middle East .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hyrax (n.)
Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hyrax
hī′raks, n. a genus of mammals of obscure affinities, like rabbits in size and marmots in appearance, living among rocks in Africa and Syria—the Cape Daman, Klippdass, or Rock-badger; the Shaphan (Hyrax syriacus) mistranslated 'cony' of Scripture; and the Abyssinian Ashtok
