a small herbivorous mammal with a compact body and a very short tail, found in arid country in Africa and Arabia. The nearest relatives to hyraxes are the elephants and other subungulates 蹄兔
Family Procaviidae and order Hyracoideaː three genera and several species 蹄兔科,蹄兔目,3属,数种
语源
mid 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek hurax 'shrew-mouse'