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单词 kouprey
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kouprey

[ koo-prey ]
/ ˈku preɪ /

noun, plural kou·preys, (especially collectively) kou·prey.

a wild ox, Bos sauveli, weighing as much as 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms), with long legs, a humped back, and distinctive horns that arch forward on the male and spiral upward on the female: once known to inhabit the forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, the kouprey may have survived only in Cambodia and is now classified as possibly extinct.
Also called gray ox.

Origin of kouprey

First recorded in 1935–40; from French, from spoken Khmer ko:prey (written gō brai ), from Pali “cow” + Khmer brai “forest”

Words nearby kouprey

Kotzebue, Kotzebue Sound, Koufax, koulibiaca, koumis, kouprey, koura, kouros, Kourou, Koussevitzky, Kováč
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British Dictionary definitions for kouprey

kouprey
/ (ˈkuːpreɪ) /

noun

a large wild member of the cattle tribe, Box sauveli, of SE Asia, having a blackish-brown body and white legs: an endangered species

Word Origin for kouprey

C20: from French, from a Cambodian native name, from Pali cow + Khmer brai forest
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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