单词 | bubal antelope |
释义 | > as lemmasbubal antelope 2. Also more fully bubal antelope, bubal hartebeest. Any of various African hartebeests or related antelopes; esp. a hartebeest of the subspecies Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus (now thought to be extinct), having lyre-shaped horns and a sandy-brown coat with greyish patches on the muzzle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] antelope1417 ante1625 bubal1661 capricerve1661 bok1812 α. β. 1775 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals III. 137 The animal that the gentlemen of the Academy of Sciences have described under the name of the Barbary cow,..which we call the bubal [Fr. bubale].1790 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. II. i. 10 As we returned to our camp we met with a number of Bubales, I killed one with my carbine.1858 D. W. Mitchell Guide to Gardens Zool. Soc. London 59 Bubal Antilope. (Acronotus bubalis.)... The Bubal extends from Morocco to Nubia, and was well known to the ancients.1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab ix. 168 Antelopes..the oryx antelope and the bubale.1907 G. Renshaw Final Nat. Hist. Ess. xvi. 152 A fine herd of eight bubal..was studied by the writer some years ago in the Jardin des Plantes.1931 Anthopol., Mem. 3 56 An antelope, the bubal hartebeest (Bubalis boselaphus), a native of the larger part of northern Africa, was mummified.1991 P. Matthiessen Afr. Silences i. 31 I..took small pleasure in the dozen kob and bubales.2015 J. Kingdon Kingdon Field Guide Afr. Mammals (ed. 2) 600 Extinction of the Bubal should serve as a warning about the vulnerability of this species.1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A4 Cornigerous ruminants, horned and chewing the cudde; as the Cow,..sheep, musmon, goat, rock-goat, ibex, bubalis, pygargus, [etc.]. 1688 A. Pitfield tr. C. Perrault Mem. Nat. Hist. Animals 128 This Animal [sc. the Barbary cow] ought rather to be taken for the Bubalus of the Ancients..: for Aristotle compares the Bubalus to the Stagg. 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VII. 4 The horns of the bubalus..never fall off, but continue to grow during life, and resemble, in figure and texture, those of the gazelles. 1886 Era 11 Dec. 19/5 (advt.) Bubalis, or Cow-Faced Antelope, a Male, just arrived, for sale. < as lemmas |
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