goral
English
Etymology
Likely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Noun
goral (plural gorals)
- A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.
- 2004, A. J. T. Johnsingh, On Jim Corbett's Trail and Other Tales from Tree-tops, page 62:
- The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea, North Korea, eastern Russia and the adjoining regions of China.
- 2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 251:
- The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall into the range of N. griseus.
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References
- goral on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Naemorhedus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Naemorhedus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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