yak

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

yak, n. [Tibetan gyag.].

 A bovine mammal (Poëphagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.  [1913 Webster]

Yak lace, a coarse pillow lace made from the silky hair of the yak.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

yak, n. a long-haired humped Tibetan ox, Bos grunniens.

Etymology

Tibetan gyag

THESAURUS

yak

Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, babble, babblement, bat the breeze, bavardage, beat the gums, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bibble-babble, bison, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, cackle, calf, caquet, caqueterie, carabao, cattle, chat, chatter, chin, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, cow, crack, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dither, dogie, gab, gabble, gag, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, heifer, hornless cow, hot air, idle talk, jabber, jape, jaw, jest, kine, leppy, maverick, mere talk, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, natter, neat, nonsense talk, ox, oxen, palaver, patter, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, quip, ramble on, rattle, rattle on, reel off, run on, shoot the breeze, spiel, spout, spout off, steer, stirk, stot, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, waffle, waggery, wisecrack, wisent, witticism, yakkety-yak, yap, yearling, zebu

ROGET THESAURUS

yak

Animal

N animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.