ibex

Examples

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• During our hiking trip in the Alps, we spotted an ibex gracefully navigating the steep cliffs.

• In a few high-mountain refuges, the chamois and the ibex have also made a comeback.

  Academic text (1996)

• There were many ibex around, with some interesting encounters between males and females, indicating it's mating season.

  Blog text (21)

• The skin of an ibex was wrapped around his shoulders; an ivory amulet hung from his neck.

  Fiction book (2001)

• One of them wore large wooden ibex horns, suggesting the Scythians may have believed the dead journeyed to the afterlife on the back of a wild animal.

  Academic text (2002)

• For a time, their sacred mountain had become a place where world-class high rollers had come to stalk ibex, gazelle, bison, and bighorn sheep.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The biologist observed the ibex as it leaped from rock to rock in its natural mountain habitat.

Synonyms

C

Capra ibex

vsibex

• Specialized

9.6

A wild mountain goat with large curved horns

is the common name rather than the scientific label

W

wild goat

vsibex

1.8

A goat that lives in the wild and is not kept by people

is the specific mountain species with notably large curved horns

G

goat antelope

vsibex

• Specialized

8.2

A wild animal like a goat with antelope features that lives in mountains and forests

is one single species rather than a group of several species

Compounds

C

Capra ibex

• Specialized

9.6

A wild mountain goat with large curved horns

Surface Forms

Etymology