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Small goat antelope with small conical horns
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goral
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The gorals are four species in the genus Nemorhaedus or Naemorhedus . They are small ungulates with a goat -like or antelope -like appearance. The original name is based on Latin nemor-haedus , from nemus, nemoris 'grove' and haedus 'little goat', but was ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goral \Go"ral\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An Indian goat antelope ( Nemorhedus goral ), resembling the chamois.
WordNet
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n. small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains [syn: Naemorhedus goral ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus ''Naemorhedus''.
Usage examples of goral.
There they were, smaller by weight and length than the lone crocodile that lurked two hundred yards downstream near a watering hole, hopelessly outmatched in every physical aspect by the great tiger that sometimes came from the lower jungles to hunt the stately sambur and wiry goral, and the elusive serow.
It was usually small things like snow hares and red-legged partridges, but once in a while something larger, like a goral or an urial, and we cooked plain and simple meals of boiled or broiled meat, served blessedly sauceless.