hyraxes
Meaning of hyraxes
plural noun
a small herbivorous mammal with a compact body and a very short tail, found in arid country in Africa and Arabia. The nearest relatives to hyraxes are the elephants and other subungulates.
mid 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek hurax ‘shrew-mouse’.
Information about hyraxes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of hyraxes is: hyrax.
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Hyphenation of hyraxes
hyraxes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- hyraxes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with hyraxes
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