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DAS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

coney; cony; das; dassie; hyrax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("das" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "das"):

Procavia capensis; rock hyrax; rock rabbit (hyrax that lives in rocky areas)

Holonyms ("das" is a member of...):

family Procaviidae; Procaviidae (includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea)

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