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  • noun Plural form of bushbuck.

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Examples

  • At the time the boma was home to gentler animals such as, “bushbucks, vervet monkeys and a few Aldabra tortoises.”

    Owen & Mzee (copy) ____Maggie 2007

  • At the time the boma was home to gentler animals such as, “bushbucks, vervet monkeys and a few Aldabra tortoises.”

    Archive 2007-08-01 ____Maggie 2007

  • My office is in Bushbuckridge, which, I've been told, does not have any bushbucks.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ronda 2007

  • And although there are no bushbucks in Bbr, guess what we do have...

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ronda 2007

  • And although there are no bushbucks in Bbr, guess what we do have...

    I'm an idiot and life is wonderful Ronda 2007

  • My office is in Bushbuckridge, which, I've been told, does not have any bushbucks.

    I'm an idiot and life is wonderful Ronda 2007

  • Among tragelaphs are two or more bushbucks, the inyala, the water tragelaph

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Zebra bark, hyenas laugh, impallas grunt, ostriches boom like drums, leopards utter a plaintive sigh, hornbills cry like a stage child, bushbucks sound like a cross between

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • I wonder do the green, flame-winged loories today call hoarsely through the aisles of greenery, and the bushbucks bark their angry challenges from the deep and tangled hollows.

    Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

  • On the outskirts of Nairobi-among 140 acres of indigenous forest-sits Giraffe Manor, an intimate 10-room hotel that also happens to be a sanctuary to warthogs, bushbucks, dik-diks, more than 180 species of birds and 14 rare Rothschild giraffes including five babies.

    Forbes.com: News Morgan Lord 2012

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