gooral

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A form of goral — A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

noungooral (plural goorals)

plural goorals

  1. alternativeAlternative form of goral.

    I had some fine exercise as well as some pretty shooting when trying to get a good gooral trophy.

    1923, E. H. D. Sewell, The Log of a Sportsman, page 123
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    Common in the lower and middle hills, the gooral where numerous affords very fair sport; but it requires a good cragsman to follow them in all places.

    1854, Frederick Markham, Shooting in the Himalayas, page 43

    They eat carrion, but do not hesitate to attack live animals, such as hares, foxes and gooral, a kind of capricorn very like the chamois. At Narkanda in the Simla Hills I actually saw a pair hunting gooral.

    1936, H. S. Wood, Glimpses of the Wild: An Observer's Notes and Anecdotes on the Wild Life of Assam, page 84
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