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Noun: daman
  1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
    "Despite its small size, the daman is more closely related to elephants than to rodents";
    - hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das

Derived forms: damans

Type of: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal

Part of: family Procaviidae, Procaviidae

Encyclopedia: Daman, Ernest Ludwig