hyrax

Questions about hyrax

What is another word for hyrax?

It depends which hyrax you mean. In the sense “any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes”, the synonyms are coney, cony, dassie, das. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hyrax?

WordNet records no antonym for hyrax. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hyrax come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hyrax

• Full entry for hyraxAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hyraxWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.