Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several African antelopes of the genus Kobus, having curved ridged horns and frequenting swamps, rivers, and other bodies of water.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers
Etymologies
- The antelope lives near water and takes to water to escape predators. (Wiktionary)
- Translation of Afrikaans waterbok. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There are two kinds of waterbuck that the East African hunter will find in the course of his travels, the common waterbuck which we saw in such numbers on the Tana River, and the Defassa, or "sing-sing" waterbuck, which is found in the higher altitudes up toward the Mau escarpment and”
“In one part will be found the large cob, almost the size of a waterbuck, which is called Mrs. Gray's cob, in honor of the wife of one of the former keepers in the London zoo; in another part is the species known as Vaughan's cob, and in still other parts are the dusky cob, the puku cob, the lechwi cob, the black lechwi, the Uganda cob and Buffon's cob.”
“Other mammals found here include elephants, lions, forest buffaloes, warthogs, and a variety of antelopes such as waterbuck, reedbuck, common duiker, and even the swamp-dwelling sitatunga, the most aquatic of the antelopes.”
“The word "waterbuck" was omitted because he assumed that everybody at home would know that a "sing-sing" was a species of waterbuck, wherein he was mistaken, for comparatively few people in America know what a sing-sing is, or, for that matter, what a topi is, or what a Uganda cob is.”
“Get your cute fix on with these amazing photos of an adorable baby gorilla, endearing tiger cubs and lovable waterbuck calf.”
“While trying to get close to a heard of waterbuck; I belly crawled right into a black mamba who looked me in the face and after an eternity took off in the other direction.”
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“Problems have always included uncontrolled burning, grazing and overgrazing of cattle and poaching, particularly of elephant, roan antelope and waterbuck, despite vigorous anti-poaching campaigns; between 1992 and 1995, a guard and two poachers died during anti-poaching confrontations.”
“During our half week in the area, our list grew by the day: kudu, hyena, waterbuck, wildebeest, warthog ....”
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“Trophies from those trips—a waterbuck, a greater kudu, and a nyala—hang on the walls of the same room that contains the bulk of my magic books.”
“Also shot about five animals in South Africa four years ago, the largest two being a blue wildebeast and a waterbuck.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘waterbuck’.
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water phrases/words
how water is used
above water, across, over, on ..., all on a water, attend, watch (a ..., bear water, to, be on the water, to, bran and water, brandy-and-water, bread and water, burning water, by water, †cast, look, look... and 906 more...
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antelopes
addax
a large light-coloured antelope with curled horns. L. from an African word quoted by Pliny.
antelope
any one of a group of hollow-horned...bok, addax, antelope, antilopine, ariel, blackbuck, blaubok, bluebuck, bloubok, blesbok, blesbuck, bongo and 479 more...
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Antelope
gazelle, impala, pronghorn, nilgai, blackbuck, klipspringer, gemsbok, eland, oryx, kudu, duiker, chinkara and 54 more...
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