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  • noun Plural form of springbok.

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Examples

  • Types and Severity of Threats On an ecoregion scale, many species such as springboks, leopards and gemsboks have not suffered significant range reductions, and the distributions of smaller mammals have changed little during recorded history.

    Namibian savanna woodlands 2008

  • I'm starting to get jealous now, lol the lil springboks look so cute from that distance too.

    Animal Planet: Yelling at Springbok 2008

  • The first part is a drive-through where we got to see some bears, ostriches, springboks, giraffes, white rhinos, and lions.

    2nd July – Reserve Africaine Dr. Eugene F.M. O'Loughlin 2008

  • Balfour also called on all South Africans to give their full support to the rugby springboks in defence of their World Cup title in Wales and the cricket proteas who would be competing in the world championships in New Zealand.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • "The springboks may have won the rugby, but we plan to be more successful with our business," said Scottish Trade Promotion

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Yet when he first waked, it was not in his mind -- only that confusion out of which he had passed to nothingness with the vision of the distracted springboks.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The last thing he saw, as his eyes, with a final effort of power, sought to escape from this sudden confusion, was a herd of springboks flinging themselves about in the circle of fire, caught in the struggle of the two armies, and, like wild birds in a hurricane, plunging here and there in flight and futile motion.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The springboks were still distractedly tossing here and there, but the army to which he belonged had moved on.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The last thing he saw, as his eyes, with a final effort of power, sought to escape from this sudden confusion, was a herd of springboks flinging themselves about in the circle of fire, caught in the struggle of the two armies, and, like wild birds in a hurricane, plunging here and there in flight and futile motion.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The springboks were still distractedly tossing here and there, but the army to which he belonged had moved on.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

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