单词 | oryx |
释义 | oryx (once / 53482 pages) n WORD FAMILY oryx: oryxes USAGE EXAMPLESOne of those animals is the scimitar-horned oryx, named for its magnificently curved horns. Washington Times(Oct 10, 2016) A reunion last year that crisscrossed Saudi Arabia included a jaunt to view oryx, a once-endangered desert antelope. Wall Street Journal(Sep 28, 2016) Like David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas” or Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake,” “The Mandibles” depicts a world that is at once familiar and horribly altered. New York Times(Jul 11, 2016) n large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns Syn|Hypo|Hyper pasang Oryx gazella, gemsbok, gemsbuck large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks antelope graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks |
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