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yak

/yak/US // yæk //UK // (jæk) //

牦牛,犛牛,牦牛肉,枆牛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large, stocky, shaggy-haired wild ox, Bos grunniens, of the Tibetan highlands, having long, curved horns: endangered.
    • : a domesticated variety of this animal.

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Examples

  • Around 150 animals live here, including horses, moose, reindeer, bison and yaks.

  • The greater availability of this wild prey reduces the risks to yaks from wolves and snow leopards, point out conservationists.

  • “I happened upon yak butter tea, a traditional high-energy food eaten by Tibetans,” Asprey says.

  • This was the place where I had met the yak herds two months before when they were pasturing their yaks on the grassy uplands.

  • The yak dung is in many places the only fuel to be got and is most carefully picked up.

  • In the Rongbuk Valley there was no wood and our supply of yak dung had to come up from Chbuk.

  • He was walking with a disciple on the mountain one day, when they found an old yak's horn lying in the path.

  • It might be supposed that so hairy an animal as the yak would become dirty and unkempt.