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单词 hartebeest
释义

hartebeest

noun

harte·​beest ˈhär-tə-ˌbēst How to pronounce hartebeest (audio)
: either of two large African antelopes (Alcelaphus buselaphus and Sigmoceros lichtensteinii) with long faces and short annulate divergent horns
also : a smaller antelope (Damaliscus hunteri) of eastern Africa having a horizontal white line between the eyes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Striped throngs of zebra bound below among groups of red hartebeest and shaggy waterbuck. Paul Steyn, National Geographic, 2 May 2019 Most of the animal bones come from gazelles, but there were also the cut and broken bones of hartebeests, wildebeests, zebras, buffalos, porcupines, hares, tortoises, freshwater mollusks, snakes and ostrich eggs. Bill Lindelof, sacbee.com, 7 June 2017

Word History

Etymology

obsolete Afrikaans (now hartbees), from Dutch, from hart deer + beest beast

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined above

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