rock badger

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rock badger

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From rock + badger.

From Afrikaans dassie,

from Dutch das (“badger”).

noun rock badgers

Any member of the species Procavia capensis of mammals with a rodent-like appearance, but not closely related to rodents, related instead to the elephant, found in Africa and the Middle East.
An animal of this kind of the subpopulation found in Southern/South Africa.
Similar: Cape hyrax, Cape rock hyrax, coney, dassie, rock hyrax, rock rabbit

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@misc{rock_badger_2026,
  title = {rock badger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rock%20badger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}