单词 | gnu |
释义 | gnu /nooh, nyooh/, n. , pl. gnus, (esp. collectively) gnu. either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected. Also called wildebeest. [1770-80; < Khoikhoi, first recorded as t'gnu; prob. to be identified with nû black, as applying orig. to the black wildebeest] |
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