Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of antelope, perhaps the addax.
- noun The osprey, sea-eagle, or fish-hawk.
- noun A book name of the European hen-harrier, Circus pygargus: an Englishing of the specific name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump.
- The female of the hen harrier.
- The sea eagle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biblical An unidentified large
animal withhorns , possibly theaddax , mentioned in theBible (Deuteronomy 14:5) as one of the animals permitted for food.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Deuteronomy 14. 1999
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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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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
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[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.
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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 Michael Russell 1814
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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.
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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.
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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.
The Bible, King James version, Book 5: Deuteronomy Anonymous
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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.
bilby commented on the word pygarg
Ah, the infamous Deuteronomy menu.
August 5, 2022