saiga

Mar. 31st, 2009 07:26 am
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saiga - n. a short goatlike antelope with a short muzzle of the Eurasian steppes.


Or formerly native to there -- now confined almost entirely to SW Siberia (there's a subpopulation in Mongolia) The nose is distinctive, almost probiscoid. From Russian, possibly from Turkish origin.

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