Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rock badger

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: rock- bad-ger
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

noun

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.

Etymology

From rock + badger. From Afrikaans dassie, from Dutch das (“badger”).

Origin

Source language: Afrikaans

Word Breakdown

Root: dassie, das

Inflected Forms

rock badgers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

dassiepis hyraceum

Synonyms

Cape hyrax Cape rock hyrax coney dassie rock hyrax rock rabbit

Questions

What does rock badger mean?: 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.
Where does rock badger come from?: It is traced to Afrikaans.

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