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单词 gerenuk
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gerenukn.

/ˈɡɛrɛnuːk/
Forms: Also geranook, gerenook.
Etymology: Somali name.
A long-necked gazelle-like antelope of East Africa, Litocranius walleri.
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1895 H. G. C. Swayne 17 Trips through Somaliland 312 The Gerenuk is the commonest and most widely distributed of the Somali Antelopes.
1895 19th Cent. Sept. 489 Besides lion and rhinoceros there were..Gerenook, Dik-Dik (Nanotragus Saltii),..and many kinds of birds.
1915 T. Roosevelt & E. Heller Life-hist. Afr. Game Animals II. xviii. 610 The gerenuk was first described by Sir Victor Brooke [in 1878].
1965 New Scientist 26 Aug. 505/1 Arid-country species like gerenuks never need to drink water.
1970 New Scientist 24 Sept. 639/2 A famous zoo breeding group of gerenuk or giraffe-necked antelope are now failing to be as productive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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