goral

[ gawr-uhl, gohr- ]

/ ˈgɔr əl, ˈgoʊr- /

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noun

a short-horned goat antelope, Naemorhedus goral, of the mountainous regions of southeastern Asia: an endangered species.

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Origin of goral

1825–35; perhaps ≪ Sanskrit gaura, gaur

Words nearby goral

go places, go public, gor, gora, Gorakhpur, goral, Gorbachev, Gorbachev, Mikhail, Gorbals, gorbelly, gorblimey

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How to use goral in a sentence

We would arrive to see the hounds dancing about the burrow yelping excitedly instead of having a goral at bay as we had expected.
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One of the natives cut a leafy branch, placed the goral upon it and at the first cut chanted a prayer.
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A moment later we heard the goral leaping down the cliff not a hundred yards away.
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We had not gone a hundred yards when the hunter shouted that a goral was running in our direction.
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After each dog had had a taste of the goral's blood we again climbed the cliff at the end of the meadow.
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British Dictionary definitions for goral

goral

/ (ˈɡɔːrəl) /

noun

a small goat antelope, Naemorhedus goral, inhabiting mountainous regions of S Asia. It has a yellowish-grey and black coat and small conical horns

Word Origin for goral

C19: from Hindi, probably of Sanskrit origin

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