different between shrow vs serow

English

Etymology 1

Noun

shrow (plural shrows)

1. (obsolete) A shrew.
   • 1575, Thomas Churchyard, The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes Contayning Twelue Seuerall Labours, London: Thomas Marshe, [p. 49b],^[1]

     What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow?

     What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow.

   • 1581, Arthur Hall (translator), Ten Books of Homers Iliades, translated out of French, London: Ralph Newberie, Book 1, p. 12,^[2]

     For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe,

     Had enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.

   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act V, Scene 2,^[3]

     Hortensio. Now go thy ways; thou hast tam’d a curst shrow.

     Lucentio. ’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.

   • 1689, Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, London, Act II, Scene 2, p. 21,^[4]

     Any Man of Wit and Sense like us, Charms all Women, as one Key unlocks all Doors at Court—Nay, I’ll say a bold word for my self, Turn me to the sharpest Shrow that ever Bit or Scratch’d, if I do not make her feed out of my hand like a tame Pidgeon, may I be condemn’d to lye with my Wife.

Etymology 2

Verb

shrow (third-person singular simple present shrows, present participle shrowing, simple past and past participle shrowed)

1. (obsolete) To hide or cover; to shroud.

References

• shrow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Lepcha [script needed] (s?-ro, “long-haired Tibetan goat”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s???o?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s????/

Noun

serow (plural serows)

1. Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.
   • 1999, Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond, The Rough Guide to Japan, page 265,

     The peninsula is home to an estimated four hundred macaques, the world's most northerly colony of wild monkeys, and a growing population of red-haired, goat-like serow, both of which are a protected species.

   • 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, page 2323,

     The serow differs in being larger, at least 32 inches (81 cm) tall, whereas gorals are never more than 28 inches (71 cm). Serows are also distinguished in having small face glands that give out a duikerlike odor.

   • 2011, John P. Rafferty (editor), Grazers, page 147,

     Where official protection is accorded, it is usually on paper only, as the serow is hunted for meat and its body parts, which are used in local medicine. (For example, it is believed that the broth obtained by boiling a serow head is a remedy for arthritis.)

Usage notes

The serows have previously been classified within the genus Naemorhedus, which is now reserved for the (closely related) gorals.

Derived terms

• Chinese serow (Capricornis milneedwardsii)
• Himalayan serow (Capricornis thar)
• Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus)
• mainland serow (Capricornis milneedwardsii, formerly identified as Sumatran serow)
• southern serow (= Sumatran serow)
• red serow (Capricornis rubidus)
• Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis)
• Taiwan serow (Capricornis swinhoei)

Translations

Anagrams

• Rowse, WOREs, owers, owres, resow, rowse, sower, sowre, swore, worse

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?row]

Noun

serow

1. genitive plural of sera