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Meaning of "kouprey" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KOUPREY

From French, from a Cambodian native name, from Pali gō cow + Khmer brai forest.
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PRONUNCIATION OF KOUPREY

kouprey  [ˈkuːpreɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KOUPREY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kouprey is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KOUPREY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kouprey

A kouprey, is a wild, forest-dwelling bovine species found mainly in northern Cambodia, but also believed to exist in southern Laos, western Vietnam, and eastern Thailand. It became known to zoologists in 1937.

Definition of kouprey in the English dictionary

The definition of kouprey in the dictionary is a large wild member of the cattle tribe, Box sauveli, of SE Asia, having a blackish-brown body and white legs: an endangered species.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KOUPREY


apres
ˈæpreɪ
array
əˈreɪ
extrait
eksˈtreɪ
gray
ɡreɪ
grey
ɡreɪ
hairspray
ˈhɛəˌspreɪ
hand-spray
ˈhændˌspreɪ
hombre
ˈɒmbreɪ
Monterrey
ˌmɒntəˈreɪ
outpray
ˌaʊtˈpreɪ
pray
preɪ
prey
preɪ
ray
reɪ
re
reɪ
rei
reɪ
respray
riːˈspreɪ
spray
spreɪ
tray
treɪ
trey
treɪ
unpray
ʌnˈpreɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KOUPREY

kotare
kotch
koto
kottabos
kotuku
kotukutuku
kotwal
koulibiaca
koumis
koumiss
koumyss
koura
kouroi
kouros
Kourou
kousso

WORDS THAT END LIKE KOUPREY

Aubrey
beast of prey
bird of prey
brook lamprey
Carey
Carrey
corey
Frey
Humphrey
Jeffrey
lamprey
Monterey
murrey
osprey
river lamprey
sea lamprey
silver-grey
storey
surrey
two-storey

Synonyms and antonyms of kouprey in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kouprey» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KOUPREY

Find out the translation of kouprey to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kouprey from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kouprey» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

kouprey
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kouprey
570 millions of speakers

English

kouprey
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kouprey
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

kouprey
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

kouprey
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kouprey
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kouprey
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

koupreys
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kouprey
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kouprey
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

kouprey
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

kouprey
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kouprey
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bò xám
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

kouprey
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉम्प्रे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kouprey
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kouprey
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kouprey
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

kouprey
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kouprey
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

kouprey
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kouprey
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kouprey
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kouprey
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kouprey

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KOUPREY»

The term «kouprey» is normally little used and occupies the 137.150 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KOUPREY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kouprey

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KOUPREY»

Discover the use of kouprey in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kouprey and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Kouprey: An Action Plan for Its Conservation
The kouprey is one of the most endangered species of mammals in the world.
John Ramsay MacKinnon, Simon N. Stuart, S. N. Stuart, 1989
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New Scientist
Fighting for the forest ox Earlier this century, scientists discovered a primitive wild ox — the kouprey — in the forests of Indochina. It could help to make domestic cattle resistant to disease — if it survives Elizabeth Kemf Survivor: only a few ...
3
Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World
(170-190 cm) Diet: Grasses, leaves, twigs, and shoots Habitat: Open forest Range: Southeast Asia The kouprey, or giant Cambodian forest ox, is a remarkable animal. It is one of the largest cattle forms found in Southeast Asia and is thought to ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001
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Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory: Proceedings of ...
Coolidge calculates a curious skull-breadth index, taking the average of five breadth measurements as a percentage of basal length: this amounts to 37.4-38 per cent in zebu and kouprey, 39 per cent in banteng, and 42-49 per cent in gaur  ...
Virendra N. Misra, Peter S. Bellwood, 1985
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Little-known Asian Animals with a Promising Economic Future: ...
Uses The kouprey is a candidate for domestication and has important potential as breeding stock. It is a wild animal, but it may have been domesticated temporarily during the Khmer culture, 400-800 years ago.* Both Vietnam and Laos have ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation, 1983
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Ungulate Taxonomy
The skull of the type specimen of Bos sondaicus butleriLydekker, 1905, often considered a synonym of this taxon, appears to us to be an ordinary domestic cow. Bos sauveli Urbain, 1937 kouprey Hassanin & Ropiquet (2004), using both  ...
Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, 2011
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Vietnam: A Natural History
Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud Hurley, Le Duc Minh. rhe Kouprey or Gray Ox lies between the Gaur and the Banteng in The distinguishing features of adults are an overall gray color and in lales a large dewlap (folds of skin hanging from ...
Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud Hurley, Le Duc Minh, 2008
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Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia Of Loch Monsters ...
128 KOUPREY KOUPREY Before the wealth of cryptozoological discoveries in Vietnam, the most recent large animal to be discovered in Asia was the kouprey. In its day this animal, found along the Mekong River in Cambodia and Laos, ...
Loren Coleman, Jerome Clark, 2013
9
Grazers
Koupreys The kouprey (Bos sauveli) is an elusive wild ox (tribe Bovini, family Bovidae) of Indochina and one of the world's most endangered large mammals, if it is not already extinct. Unknown to science until 1937, the kouprey was rare even ...
John P. Rafferty, 2011
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New Scientist
Although many taxonomists would agree that all cattle should be included in the genus Bos, it is not true to say that Harold Coolidge referred to the kouprey as Bos sauveli. He was so convinced of its separate identity that he named it Novibos ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KOUPREY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kouprey is used in the context of the following news items.
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Inside Siam: Toyota Thai Premier League 2015 Round 9
The “Dangerous Kouprey” Sisaket FC were disappointed in their last TPL fixture as they lost 1-0 to the “Hello” TOT SC on the midweek clash ... «Goal.com, May 15»
2
To save the world's large herbivores, we too must make them welcome
... as elephants, hippos, all species of rhino, European bison and Indian water buffalo - but also less well-known species such as takin, kouprey, ... «The Ecologist, May 15»
3
Most large herbivores now face extinction, a study shows
... hippos, all species of rhino, European bison and Indian water buffalo, but also less well-known species such as takin, kouprey, mountain and ... «Scroll.in, May 15»
4
Most large herbivores now face extinction, our study shows
... hippos, all species of rhino, European bison and Indian water buffalo, but also less well-known species such as takin, kouprey, mountain and ... «The Conversation UK, May 15»
5
The Greatest Danger in the World. America's Vietnam War is Not …
3) The Kouprey- a very large ungulate weighing up to 2000 pounds, it was first discovered by the scientific community in 1937, and is now ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Apr 15»
6
Smooth Road Means More Tourism for Remote Province
Kouprey is a symbolic statue of Mondulkiri province located in the Sen Monorom provincial capital. (Nov Povleakhena/VOA Khmer). A road ... «VOA Khmer, Mar 15»
7
Inside Siam: Toyota Thai Premier League 2015 Round 2
Instead, it was “The Kouprey” who once again pulled off an excellent performance at home and secured some very important 3 points for their ... «Goal.com, Feb 15»
8
Camera traps reveal rare wildlife living in Virachey's 'paper park'
... reasonable chance we will get big cats, leopards, open cats, fishing cats, and an outside chance we get the rhino, tiger, kouprey and tek tek.”. «The Phnom Penh Post, Dec 14»
9
Plan to bring jungle beast back to the Kingdom
... tropical rainforests in the Cardamom Mountains were once home to a multitude of species – from the wild kouprey to the Indochinese tiger. «The Phnom Penh Post, Sep 14»
10
International Tiger Day 2014
In Cambodia, the Wildlife Alliance works directly with the community with their mobile education unit, the Kouprey Express. This allows them to ... «The Earth Times, Jul 14»

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