"rock badger" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rock badgers [plural]
Etymology: rock + badger. From Afrikaans dassie, from Dutch das (“badger”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|rock|badger}} rock + badger, {{der|en|af|dassie}} Afrikaans dassie, {{der|en|nl|das|gloss=badger}} Dutch das (“badger”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} rock badger (plural rock badgers)
  1. Any of species Procavia capensis of mammals with a rodent-like appearance, but not closely related, related instead to the elephant, found in Africa and the Middle East. Categories (lifeform): Hyraxes
    Sense id: en-rock_badger-en-noun-~el0WS6~ Disambiguation of Hyraxes: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. Any of species Procavia capensis of mammals with a rodent-like appearance, but not closely related, related instead to the elephant, found in Africa and the Middle East.
    An animal of this kind of the subpopulation found in Southern/South Africa.
    Categories (lifeform): Hyraxes
    Sense id: en-rock_badger-en-noun-Ar27CCFr Disambiguation of Hyraxes: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rock rabbit, rock hyrax, Cape hyrax, Cape rock hyrax, dassie [English, South-African], coney (english: Biblical English word) Coordinate_terms: dassiepis, hyraceum

Inflected forms

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