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单词 waterbok
释义 waterbok|ˈwɔːtəbɒk|
Also 9 -boc, -bock; and see water-buck.
[a. Du. waterbok, f. water water n. + bok (see buck n.1 1 e).]
= water-buck.
1835A. Smith Diary 20 Sept. (1940) II. 240 The flesh coarse-grained and exactly like the flesh of the waterbok.c1850Nat. Encycl. I. 813 The other, a waterboc, was found in Karagŭé.1863Speke Discov. Nile iii. 36 ‘The bags’ we made counted two brindled gnŭ, four water-boc, one pallah-boc, and one pig.1873E. E. Frewer tr. Schweinfurth's Hrt. Africa v. (1878) 160 These antelopes belonged to the Waterboks (Antilope ellipsiprymna)... The hair of this species of Waterbock is extremely long and soft.1885Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 336 The Water⁓bok of South Africa (Kobus ellipsiprymnus), which extends through Central Africa up to Abyssinia, where it is known as the Méhedéhet.
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