Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The European ibex or steinbok, Capra ibex; hence, a name of the rock-goats of the genus Ibex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The ibex.
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- noun
ibex
Etymologies
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Examples
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Alps (_antelope rupicapra_); and in the same localities, but more rarely seen, the "bouquetin," or "tur" (_aigocerus pyrenaicus_) -- a species of ibex, _not_ identical with the _capra ibex_ of Linnaeus and the Alpine mountains.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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It is the nearest town to the Maladetta, their highest point, in which the Garonne rises, and among whose rocks is one of the last strongholds of the ibex or bouquetin, the "wild goat" mentioned by
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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The only remarkable creature is the mouflon, a species of sheep, resembling that almost extinct animal the bouquetin or ibex of the Alps. It inhabits the highest mountains, and though very wild is easily tamed.
Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads C. B. Black
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For how many millions of years was there no approach to a road over the St. Gothard, save the untutored watercourses of the Ticino and the Reuss, and the track of the bouquetin or the chamois?
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For how many millions of years was there no approach to a road over the St. Gothard, save the untutored watercourses of the Ticino and the Reuss, and the track of the bouquetin or the chamois?
Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868
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The "wild goats of the rock," described in the chapter just quoted, are supposed to be the same as the ibex or bouquetin.
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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See here (in French, sorry): www. bouquetin-des-alpes.org / populations / vercors / vercors. htm
unknown title 2009
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It's is commonly called an alpine Ibex or bouquetin in french.
unknown title 2009
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It is a common notion of the hunters, adopted by many naturalists, that the age of a bouquetin may be estimated by the number of transverse ridges or knobs in the horns.
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