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pygarg (ˈpaɪgɑːg) Forms: 4 phigarg, (figarde), 6 pygarge, 7 pygargue, pigarge, 7– pygarg. Also in L. form pygargus (4 pigargus). [ad. L. pȳgarg-us (Pliny), a. Gr. πῡ́γαργος lit. ‘white-rump’, applied to a kind of antelope, a white-tailed eagle, and a sandpiper; f. πῡγή rump + ἀργός white.] 1. A kind...
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Pygarg
The pygarg () is an animal mentioned in the Bible in as one of the animals permitted for food. Henry Baker Tristram (1867) proposed that the pygarg was the Saharan antelope addax and described it as "a large animal, over high at the shoulder, and
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figarde
† figarde Obs. rare—1. [corruptly ad. L. pygarg-us.] = pygarg.1388 Wyclif Deut. xiv. 5 A figarde.
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Dishon (disambiguation)
Dishon may also refer to:
Dishon Stream (Nahal Dishon) a stream by the settlement
Dishon (, ḏîšōn), a Hebrew biblical name for pygarg, possibly an antelope
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Siberian roe deer
Its specific name , literally "white-rumped", is shared by the pygarg, an antelope known in antiquity.
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camelion
▪ I. † camelion Obs. Also 5 camalyon. [As a word app. the same as chameleon, but in the 14th c. taken as made up of camel + lion, and identified with camelo-pard.] A camelopard or giraffe. [Wyclif appears to have had before him a Latin text reading cameleopardalum; this he mistook for two words, ren...
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Kosher animals
The pygarg; the identity of this animal is uncertain, and pygarg is merely the Septuagint's rendering.
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bison
bison (ˈbaɪsən, ˈbɪsən, ˈbɪzən) Pl. 4–6 in Latin form, bisontes, bisountes; sing. 7– bison. [Adopted, directly or through F. bison, (Cotgr. 1611) from L. bison (pl. bisontes), ad. OTeut. *wisand, wisund str. masc., the native name, in OHG. wisunt, -ant, -int, MHG. wisant, -ent, -en, MGer. wesant, OE...
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white-tailed
white-tailed, a. (ˈhwaɪtteɪld) [white a. 12 c.] Having a white tail; white-tailed deer = white-tail 2; white-tailed eagle, the European sea eagle (see eagle n. 1 a); white-tailed gnu, the common (as distinct from the brindled) gnu, Connochætes gnou; white-tailed ptarmigan, a ptarmigan, Lagopus leucu...
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List of animals in the Bible
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Addax — A kind of antelope with twisted horns; it very probably corresponds to the דִּישׁוֹן (dîshõn) of the Hebrews and the pygarg of the divers translations Four species are mentioned in the Bible:
, dîshon (D.V. pygarg; Deuteronomy ), commonly identified with the Addax (Addax nasomaculatus);
, tsebhî (Deuteronomy
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ox
ox (ɒks) Forms: 1 oxa, 2–7 oxe, 4, 7– ox, (5 hox, 6 oxce), 7– (north. and Sc.) owce, owse. pl. 1 oxan, (œxen, exen), 2– oxen, (3 ocsen, oxene, 4–6 -in, -yn, -yne, 5 -one, exin, exon, 6 oxeson), north. and Sc. 6 oussin, 7– owsen, owssen, ousen. β. 4–6 oxes, (4 -is, 5 -ys). [Com. Teut.: OE. oxa wk. ma...
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white
▪ I. white, n.1 (hwaɪt) Forms: see white a. [Various absolute uses of white a. Cf. L. album, F. blanc blank n.] 1. The translucent viscous fluid surrounding the yolk of an egg, which becomes white when coagulated; = albumen 1. Usually in full, the white of an egg (or, as a substance, white or the wh...
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