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saola

/ˈsaʊlə/

saola noun: a critically endangered ruminant of species Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, of Vietnam and Laos.

saola: a critically endangered ruminant of species Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, of Vietnam and Laos
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Noun

saola (plural saolas or saola)

  1. A critically endangered ruminant of species Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, of Vietnam and Laos.
    • The current consensus is that the saola is so rare and so solitary in terms of genetic relatives that it should be placed not only in its own separate genus (Pseudoryx) but also in its own tribe (Pseudorygini) within the subfamily Bovinae.2013, C. Michele Thompson, 10: Would a saola by any other name still be a saola?, Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Mark Sidel (editors), State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam, Taylor & Francis...
    • Killing or capture of saola is prohibited by law in both Vietnam and Lao PDR, and the sale of wildlife in both countries is generally illegal, but there is insufficient enforcement of these laws in both countries.2014, William Robichaud, Barney Long, “Chapter 19: Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis Dung, Giao, Chinh, Touc, Arctander & Mackinnon, 1993”, in Mario Melletti, James Burton, editors, Ecology, Evolution...
    Synonyms:
    Asian unicorn, spindlehorn, Vu Quang ox, Vu Quang bovid

saola meaning in Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese

saola in Tamil

இதுவும் ஒரு சிற்றினம் ஆகும்

saola in Thai

rare ruminant of Vietnam and Laos
ซาวลา saola

saola in Vietnamese

rare ruminant of Vietnam and Laos
sao la

Synonyms of saola

Forms of saola

pluralsaolas
pluralsaola

Origin of saola

Borrowed from Vietnamese sao la, probably from Lao ເສົາຫລ (sao la, “spindle[-horned]”) or some other Tai-Kadai language.

Questions about saola

What does saola mean?
Saola means a critically endangered ruminant of species Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, of Vietnam and Laos.
What is saola in Tamil?
Saola in Tamil is இதுவும் ஒரு சிற்றினம் ஆகும். See Saola meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is saola?
Saola is a noun.
How do you pronounce saola?
Saola is pronounced /ˈsaʊlə/.
What is the plural of saola?
The plural of saola is saolas.

Words near saola in the dictionary

  1. Sao-atan
  2. SaO2
  3. Saoat
  4. saofai
  5. Saoirse
  6. saola
  7. saolas
  8. Saonian
  9. Saora
  10. SAOs
  11. Saoshyant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saola (page history and authors); saola (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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