Hyrax is an English word with synonyms like coney or cony. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hyrax in a sentence
Hyrax meaning
Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the family Procaviidae from the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East.
Using Hyrax
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the family Procaviidae from the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East.
- Useful related words include: coney, cony, dassie, das.
- In the example corpus, hyrax often appears in combinations such as: the hyrax.
Context around Hyrax
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hyrax
- In this selection, "hyrax" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, duiker, rock, population and monkeys stand out and add context to how "hyrax" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include forest duiker hyrax monkeys and and including the hyrax. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hyrax" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hyrax
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rock hyrax are a small mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. (11 words)
The hyrax population studied lives in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea in Israel. (17 words)
He still used subordination terms (rhinos, horses, tapirs), while Perissodactyla stood as a designation for the entire order, including the hyrax. (21 words)
Despite being little over a foot in length, I was astonished to discover that the hyrax is the closest living relative to the elephant – this one spends most of the afternoon sun-bathing on a nearby rocky ledge. (38 words)
Just a few of the many indigenous creatures killed are bushbuck, red, blue and forest duiker, hyrax, monkeys and other birds, including fish eagles whose nests have already been raided in Tweni. (32 words)
He still used subordination terms (rhinos, horses, tapirs), while Perissodactyla stood as a designation for the entire order, including the hyrax. (21 words)
Example sentences (5)
Despite being little over a foot in length, I was astonished to discover that the hyrax is the closest living relative to the elephant – this one spends most of the afternoon sun-bathing on a nearby rocky ledge.
The hyrax population studied lives in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea in Israel.
Just a few of the many indigenous creatures killed are bushbuck, red, blue and forest duiker, hyrax, monkeys and other birds, including fish eagles whose nests have already been raided in Tweni.
Rock hyrax are a small mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.
He still used subordination terms (rhinos, horses, tapirs), while Perissodactyla stood as a designation for the entire order, including the hyrax.
Common combinations with hyrax
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: