Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

Usage examples of dassie.

The urine from the dassie colonies poured down the cliff face so copiously that as it dried it covered the rock with a thick coating that shone in the sunlight like toffee but smelt less sweet.

At four in the afternoon, Colonel Dassie Dred stood on the verge of worldwide farne.

San Dominican rebel, Colonel Dassie Dred, had been killer during an attack on a tourist bus some twenty-five miles east of the capital city of Coastown.

Black boys and girls waved a psychedelic poster of Dassie Dred that was making the rounds at the University of the West Indies and other schools throughout Central and South America.

On the rock shelf high above his head a family of hyrax, the plump rabbit-like rock dassie, sat in a row and stared down at him with patent astonishment, fluffy as children's toys, until at last they took flight and disappeared into their rocky warrens with the speed of a conjurer's illusion.