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saolas

saolas is the plural of saola.

Meaning of saola

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...
    Synonyms:
    Asian unicorn, spindlehorn, Vu Quang ox, Vu Quang bovid

Questions about saolas

What is saolas the plural of?
Saolas is the plural of saola.

Words near saolas in the dictionary

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

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