Budorcas Definition

pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Caprinae — the takins.

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Origin of Budorcas

  • New Latin, from Ancient Greek βοῦς (bous, “ox, etc.”) + δορκάς (dorkas, “one of several deer-like animals”)

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Budorcas Sentence Examples

  • Apparently the musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus) has little or no near relationship to either the oxen or the sheep; and it is not improbable that its affinities are with the Asiatic takin (Budorcas) and the extinct European Criotherium of the Pliocene of Samos.

  • To this list must be added the curious sloth-bear Aeluropus melanoleucus, a rare eastern species, and the so-called " unicorn " antelopes, the " takyin " (Budorcas taxicolor), also an eastern Indo-Malayan species.

  • In the latter respect this ruminant resembles the takin (Budorcas) of Tibet, which, as already mentioned, has horns recalling those of the white-tailed gnu.

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