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- noun Plural form of
steinbok .
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Examples
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Monkeys and rhinoceroses, besides kudus, steinboks, and antelopes, were numerous in the vicinity.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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We saw herds of animals in the distance -- gemsboks, steinboks, gnus, and cameleopards -- but they were too far off to enable me to get a shot at any of them.
In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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a spruit, or a Kaffir's kraal; of oxen leaning against the disselboom of a cape-wagon; of a herd of steinboks, or a little colony of meerkats in the karoo.
The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897
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a spruit, or a Kaffir's kraal; of oxen leaning against the disselboom of a cape-wagon; of a herd of steinboks, or a little colony of meerkats in the karoo.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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a herd of a dozen buffaloes, now twenty zebras and as many cameleopards might be seen scampering over the plain, followed by numerous steinboks or koodoos, graceful oryxes or hartbeests leaping and bounding away before them.
In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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