单词 | blue bull |
释义 | > as lemmasblue bull blue bull n. the nilgai, Boselaphus tragocamelus; cf. bluebuck n. 3. ΚΠ 1825 W. Hamilton Hand-bk. Terms Arts & Sci. 255/1 Nylghau, or blue-bull. In Zoology, an East Indian animal of a new species, apparently a medium between black cattle and deer. 1887 L. Oliphant Episodes 163 I shot my first and only blue bull or nylgau. 1978 A. Desai Pigeons at Daybreak in Games at Twilight (1982) 99 There are bulls, buffaloes, bullocks, and bul-buls, but whoever heared [sic] of a blue bull? Nilgai, do they mean? 2002 D. Reed et al. Rough Guide Nepal (ed. 5) 555 Two species of antelope, the graceful, corkscrew-horned blackbuck and the ungainly nilgai (blue bull), may be seen at Bardia. < as lemmas |
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