dassie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dassie
1780–90; < Afrikaans, diminutive of das; see das
Example Sentences
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It is only the second time the small animals, also known as the rock rabbit or dassie, have reproduced since arriving at the safari park in 2012.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2021
The dassie flopped wildly, snapping his sharp tusks.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
She spent hours lurking by the dassie dens only to have them scale an almost vertical rock to escape.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
She poked sticky cotton into tiny gaps with a sliver of dassie bone.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
She remembered the leap the caracal had made to pluck a dassie from a rock.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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