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ibex

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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i·bex /ˈaɪbeks/ noun (plural ibexes or ibex) [countable]  HBAa wild goat that lives in the mountains of Europe, Asia, and North Africa 北山羊〔一种生活在欧洲、亚洲和北非山区的野山羊〕
Examples from the Corpus
ibexOryx and ibex are scarce, but they are there.He left the young man to admire the ibex head that was mounted above the hall clock.The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.
Origin ibex (1600-1700) Latin
i·bex nounChineseSyllable
of a mountains Asia, wild Europe, the that goat in lives Corpus


ibex
ibex /ˈaɪbeks/ noun (plural ibexes or ibex) [countable]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: Latin
a wild goat that lives in the mountains of Europe, Asia, and North Africa


ibexBrE /ˈaɪbeks/ 🔊NAmE /ˈaɪbeks/ 🔊 noun (
plural
ibex
)
a mountain goat with long curved horns 北山羊,羱羊(角长而弯曲)