Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several goat antelopes of the genus Capricornis of forested mountain slopes of East, South, and Southeast Asia, having short horns and a dark coat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name for the goat-antelopes of Asia, forming the genus Nemorhædus: specifically applied to N. bubalinus of the Himalayas. This is about the size of a goat, has small, round horns, curving backward, and a coat of coarse, long, gray hair. One species, N. crispus, occurs in Japan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The thar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several species of Asian
ungulates of the genusNemorhaedus (also spelt Naemorhedus).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of course they had to find something, so this time they found a "serow" -- a somewhat scarce beast.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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Counting the plane ride that begins his journey, he battles air, fire, earth and water, countless Japanese, and even a wild goatlike creature called a serow that gores him viciously.
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Under the deal, Beijing offers the island two pandas and receives a Formosa sika deer and a Formosa serow, which is a goat-like or antelope-like mammal.
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Although very shy and difficult to find, the serow is a fierce and dangerous brute when wounded and brought to bay.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The black bear, the serow and 84 species of birds are found in this forest.
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Japanese serow Capricornis crispus is a Special Natural Monument species.
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The serow lives from 200 m to the vegetated summits of Sumatra's highest peaks.
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Another distinctive species of Sumatra's montane forests is the serow (Capricornis sumatraensis).
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None of the mammals are considered endemic to the ecoregion, but there are several threatened species, including the snow leopard, serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), markhor, Himalayan tahr, argali, Himalayan musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster), and brown bear (Ursus arctos).
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The mammals include several threatened species, including the southern serow (Naemorhedus sumatraensis), Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), and markhor (Capra falconeri) that warrant conservation attention.
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hile they haven’t detected the animal yet, Robichaud says they are seeing signs of an abundance of other species that no one would have expected, including hundreds of scat and visual sightings of serow, a goat-antelope.
In search of the last saola jeremy_hance 2024
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