DAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does das mean? 

• DAS (noun)
  The noun DAS has 1 sense:

1. any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

  Familiarity information: DAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

coney; cony; das; dassie; hyrax

Hypernyms ("das" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "das"):

Procavia capensis; rock hyrax; rock rabbit (hyrax that lives in rocky areas)

Holonyms ("das" is a member of...):

family Procaviidae; Procaviidae (includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea)

 Context examples 

These were the findings of a special report titled Impacto, vulnerabilidade e adaptação das cidades costeiras brasileiras às mudanças climáticas.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

Such sayings exist in numerous languages: other examples in English include "Grape or grain, but never the twain”, while Germans claim “Wein auf Bier, das rat’ ich Dir—Bier auf Wein, das lass’ sein” and the French say “Bière sur vin est venin, vin sur bière est belle manière”.###!!!###

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)