‖ goral Zool.
(ˈgɔərəl)
Also gooral, goorul, gural.
An Indian antelope (Cemas goral).
| 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 89/2 The Goral (A. goral)..first described by General Hardwicke in the ‘Linnæan Transactions.’ 1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Africa iii. 35 Goorul or chamois of the Himalayas. 1876 Kinloch Large Game Shooting in Thibet Ser. ii. 21 The Gooral, like the Serow, belongs to the Chamois family..I have several times seen..Gooral in the Sewalik hills. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 23 Jan. 3/3 There were other kinds of big game, as musk and barking deer, and goral—an animal not unlike the chamois. 1894 Royal Nat. Hist. (ed. Lyddeker) II. 257 The goral (Cemas goral) of the Himalaya. Ibid. 258 Nearly allied to the gorals are the..serows, or goat-antelopes [Nemorhædus]. 1919 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 Nov. 777/1, I hoped to get a gural or two on my way. 1922 Blackw. Mag. May 558/2 They reminded me of the Himalayan gural. 1925 G. Burrard Big Game Hunting 101, I have always liked gooral meat. 1932 Discovery Nov. 344/2 On the wooded crags [in N. Burma] 2,000 feet above the river, there were gooral, but it needed dogs to drive them out from cover. |