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yak

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1. yak - Noun

2. yak - Verb

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A bovine mammal (Poephagus 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.

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she was yakking away about her grandchildren Source: Internet

A Boeing plane has crashed in the Sado Khel area of Deh Yak district of Ghazni province in Afghanistan on Jan. Source: Internet

At one point, some steppe bison crossbred with the ancestors of the modern yak. Source: Internet

Before the use of iron chains it is thought that Gyalpo used ropes from twisted willows or yak skins. citation He may have also used tightly bound cloth. Source: Internet

Constructed in 1885, Lal Durbar (Hotel Yak and Yeti) was built by the 11th prime minister of Nepal Bir Sumsher Jung Bahadur Rana as a theatre palace. Source: Internet

Climatic variables such as rainfall, cold waves and temperature change have been studied for the two yak rearing districts of Arunachal Pradesh–Tawang and West Kameng. Source: Internet

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