Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of antelope, perhaps the addax.
- n. The osprey, sea-eagle, or fish-hawk.
- n. A book name of the European hen-harrier, Circus pygargus: an Englishing of the specific name.
Wiktionary
- n. biblical An unidentified large animal with horns, possibly the addax, mentioned in the Bible (Deuteronomy 14:5) as one of the animals permitted for food.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Zoöl.) A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump.
- The female of the hen harrier.
- The sea eagle.
Etymologies
- See Dishon. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.”
“The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.”
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
“[Shaw, Travels]. pygarg -- a species of antelope (Oryx addax) with white buttocks, wreathed horns two feet in length, and standing about three feet seven inches high at the shoulders.”
“Considerable obscurity hangs over the natural history of the _pygarg_, the characteristics of which have not hitherto been well determined.”
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
“4. These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5. The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.”
“05: 014: 005 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.”
“4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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Book-names
"In zoology and botany, a name (other than the technical name) of an animal or plant found only in scientific treatises—that is, not in use as a vernacular name. It is often a mere adaptation of th...
serpent-eagle, wapiti, crombec, cuckold, wrasse, ruticilla, goathead, merion, jacana, guenon, magpie, wave and 124 more...
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antelopes
addax
a large light-coloured antelope with curled horns. L. from an African word quoted by Pliny.
antelope
any one of a group of hollow-horned...addax, antelope, antilopine, ariel, blackbuck, blaubok, bluebuck, bloubok, blesbok, blesbuck, bok, bongo and 479 more...
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