Crossword clues for ibexes
ibexes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ibex \I"bex\ ([imac]"b[e^]ks), n.; pl. E. Ibexes ([imac]"b[e^]ks*[e^]z), L. Ibices ([imac]b"[i^]*s[=e]z). [L., a kind of goat, the chamois.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.
Note: The Alpine ibex ( Capra ibex) is the best known. The Spanish, or Pyrenean, ibex ( Capra Hispanica) has smoother and more spreading horns.
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Usage examples of "ibexes".
There were the painted heads of seven ibexes, with their enormous horns, all of them facing in the same direction.
And every surface, every tool of bone or wood or stone or ivory, was adorned with images of people, birds, plants, and animals: there were lions, woolly rhinos, mammoth, reindeer, horses, wild cattle, bears, ibexes, a leopard, even an owl.
I may need you to swear that there were no ibexes or orxys or even pronghorn antelope in view, and that I confirmed you didn’t have a hunting rifle with you.
These cloud-bound crags, with their eagles and ibexes and wheeling vultures have, time out of mind it is said been the haunt of outlawed and violent men.
Bears, lions, elephants, ibexes, and gazelles are in cages in our zoos.