Hyrax is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 30 anagrams from letters in hyrax (ahrxy).
1825-35; New Latin Greek hýrax (genitive hýrakos) shrewmouse
In size it must have been something like the rabbit or the hyrax.
The following account of the hyrax has been furnished to me by Lt.-Col.
This animal was of about the size of a hyrax, which indeed it resembles in several points of structure.
The aspect of the Rodent lower jaw is characteristically different from that of hyrax and the forms under consideration.
The strong chisel-shaped incisors suggest the Rodents and hyrax.
We have left for our final consideration the aberrant and unique mammalian type found in hyrax (Fig. 378).
It is true there was much reason in his holding to the opinion that the hyrax is no pachyderm.
In situations which suit it, the hyrax is very plentiful, and is much hunted by the natives, who esteem its flesh very highly.
The proximal typical ccal pouch of hyrax would then correspond to the similar colic pouch of Iguana.
A variety of nematodes have also been observed in the Cape hyrax.
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