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PASANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pasang mean? 

PASANG (noun)
  The noun PASANG has 2 senses:

1. large African antelope with long straight nearly upright hornsplay

2. wild goat of Iran and adjacent regionsplay

  Familiarity information: PASANG used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PASANG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

oryx; pasang

Hypernyms ("pasang" is a kind of...):

antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pasang"):

gemsbok; gemsbuck; Oryx gazella (large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks)

Holonyms ("pasang" is a member of...):

genus Oryx (African antelopes: oryxes)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bezoar goat; Capra aegagrus; pasang

Hypernyms ("pasang" is a kind of...):

wild goat (undomesticated goat)


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