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Definition of Tahrs
1. tahr [n] - See also: tahr
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tahrs
Literary usage of Tahrs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"The tahrs date back in a fossil state to the Pliocene Epoch. ... The tahrs,
however, in common with all the goats and all but two species of sheep, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"tahrs AND GOAT ANTELOPES. There exist in Southern Asia three species of goat
which have no beards and small horns, and are assigned to a separate genus, ..."
3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... upright horns, no beards, and goat- like haunts and habits. Examples are the
shaggy brown tahrs of the mountains of India and Arabia; the ungraceful, ..."
4. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1906)
"... upright horns, no beards, and goat- like haunts and habits. Examples are the
shaggy brown tahrs of the mountains of India and Arabia; the ungraceful, ..."
5. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... upright horns, no beards, and goat- like haunts and habits. Examples are the
shaggy brown tahrs of the mountains of India and Arabia; the ungraceful, ..."
6. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"It is so far divergent from the true sheep as to be almost worthy of generic
distinction. In some respects it is as much related to the tahrs ..."
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