TAKIN


Meaning of TAKIN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈtä-ˌkēn ]

noun

Etymology: Mishmi (Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India)

Date: 1850

: a large heavily built bovid ruminant ( Budorcas taxicolor ) of Tibet and adjacent areas of Asia that is related to the goats and the musk ox and that has horns in both sexes arising near the midline of the head and sweeping abruptly outward and then backward and upward

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.