Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The American antelope or pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The springbuck.
  • noun The pronghorn.

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  • noun The springbok.
  • noun The pronghorn.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns

Etymologies

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prong +‎ buck

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Examples

  • When the climate changes, when it becomes warmer, for instance, northern creatures that once were at home in the lowlands draw off into the neighboring highlands, leaving their old haunts to newcomers from the south, while nevertheless the two faunas may be only a few miles apart; just as in Montana and Alberta moose and caribou in certain places were found side by side with the prongbuck.

    VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916

  • The white feathers were raised and displayed so that the spot flashed like the “chrysanthemum” on a prongbuck whose curiosity has been aroused.

    IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest 1914

  • There is no prongbuck, and many other creatures characteristic of the United States and British Columbia are not found in Upper and Lower Canada or in the maritime provinces.

    Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

  • Virginian deer, [4] and of the prongbuck "antelope" [5] thronged the grassy flats, and elk browsed on the foliage of the thickets along the river banks.

    Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

  • The white feathers were raised and displayed so that the spot flashed like the "chrysanthemum" on a prongbuck whose curiosity has been aroused.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • [Footnote 4: _Mazama americana_, similar to, but quite distinct from, the larger mule deer of British Columbia.] [Footnote 5: The prongbuck (_Antilocapra americana_) is not a true antelope, though in outward appearance it resembles a large gazelle.

    Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

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