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单词 blue wildebeest
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blue wildebeest
blue wildebeest n. [compare South African Dutch blauw wilde beest (1838 or earlier)] the common wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus, bluish-grey or greyish-brown in colour, which is abundant on the open savannahs of southern and eastern Africa; also called brindled gnu.
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1840 J. Backhouse 23 July in Extracts Jrnl. James Backhouse (1841) IX. 39 We again fell in with herds of the blue wilde-beest and springboks.
1897 H. A. Bryden Nature & Sport 201 Brindled gnu they are called in Europe, in South Africa invariably blue wildebeest.
1953 Cape Argus 25 Apr. 8/4 The animals include ribbok, grysbok,..and one blue wildebeest.
2009 P. Briggs Tanzania (ed. 6) Bradt. Trav. Guides i. ii. 34 Immense herds of blue wildebeest occur on the Serengeti Plains.
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