jackal
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- noun
- /ˈdʒækəl/
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chacal
- After we arrived, they chased the jackals off and ditched the hyena.
- hyenas and jackals
- wolves and jackals
- coyotes and jackals
She just heard a Jackal fell down a well.
- She just heard a Jackal fell down a well.
- No, it's a black backed Jackal skull and this is cool.
- It's about the jackals you tried to avoid meeting along the way.
Examples
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There were bone-cracking scavengers, small jackal or fox-like generalists, large wolf-like hunters, and so on.
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Because the jackal leads the lion to game and to water.
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The jackals have found us.
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The jackals in Washington will soon be in retreat, I hope.
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The howling of the jackals had not yet begun in the orange grove.
Fiction book (1996) -
Empty valleys where foxes and jackals roamed, and even the occasional hyena.
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At sunset, a group of jackals scavenged near the waterhole, searching for leftover prey.
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The jackal howled into the night, signaling its presence to other scavengers in the area.
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A jackal prowled through the grasslands, using its keen senses to hunt for small animals.
Compounds
- South African
A small wild dog with black fur on its back and shoulders that lives in Africa
A wild animal like a small dog from northern African deserts that hunts at night
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Etymology
Jackal comes from an old Persian name shaghāl and an older Indian word śṛgāla, both meaning 'jackal', and that name moved into Turkish and then into European languages. So English simply kept the local name for this wild, dog-like animal, which is why jackal still means this scavenger today.