ibex

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, typically with large backward-curving horns

   The male ibex bent his head inward so that his massive horns would take the force of the fall.

Borrowed from Latin ibex, a word for a wild goat or chamois. Its earlier origin is uncertain and may lie in an ancient language of the Iberian Peninsula or the western Alps.

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