Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To breed (an animal) to have this kind of hair.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA king, particularly in ancient Rome. · An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.
From Latin rēx (“king”). Doublet of rajah and roy. Noun sense 2 originally referred to rabbits of the Belgian "castorrex" breed, so named because their fur was similar to that of beavers, and entered English around 1920.
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