Definitions for tahrs

tahrs tahr

Spelling: [tahr]
IPA: /tɑr/

Tahrs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in tahrs (ahrst).

Definitions for tahrs

noun

  1. any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.

Origin of tahrs

First recorded in 1832, tahr is from the Nepali word thār

Examples for tahrs

Cheetah is from some East Indian tongue, as is tahr, the name of the wild goat of the Himalayas.

The tahr is fairly common all along the higher Himalayan Range.

The ibexes, markhors, tahr and all the wild sheep eventually will be shot out by sportsmen who are "sheep crazy."

In Asia it should include the great Indian rhinoceros and its allied species, the burrhel, the Nilgiri tahr and the gayal.

It is a large and powerful beast, considerably larger than a tahr, and longer in the leg.

Or if you down't like the tahr of London, you could go to the Zoo.

Though not an ibex, the sportsmen of India early gave this name to the tahr of the Nilgiri and Anamalai hills.

The genera are Ovis (sheep), Capra (goats) and Hemitragus (tahr).

Word Value for tahrs
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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