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Definition of Bezoar goat
1. Noun. Wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions.
Definition of Bezoar goat
1. Noun. A wild goat, ''Capra aegagrus'', native to Asia Minor and the Middle East and also found on Crete. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bezoar Goat
Literary usage of Bezoar goat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"The eighth is called the " pazan," or by some The " bezoar goat," which greatly
resembles the former, except a small variety in their horns ; and also with ..."
2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"... which is also called the bezoar goat, from the peculiar concretion called Fig.
311.—The .1, ¡. ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"The Oriental bezoar which occurs principally in the fourth stomach and the
intestines of the bezoar goat (capra aegagrus) living in Syria and Persia, ..."
4. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"... but the ANTILOPE gazelle of the Naturalists is a particular species, otherwise
called ALGAZEL, and the bezoar goat. It inhabits India, Persia, Egypt, ..."
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