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Large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks
Answer for the clue "Large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks ", 8 letters:
gemsbuck
Word definitions for gemsbuck in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks [syn: gemsbok , Oryx gazella ] [also: gembucks (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of gemsbok English)
Usage examples of gemsbuck.
They chased the ghostly grey gemsbuck over the smoking red dunes, and in the thorn country they hunted the stiff-legged giraffe and sent their grotesque but stately bodies plunging and sliding to earth with the crack of rifle fire, the long graceful necks twisting in the agony of death like that of a swan.
Ahead of him there was a rush of big purple-beige bodies as a herd of gemsbuck burst through the rank undergrowth on the far bank.
The straight sharp black horn of the gemsbuck had been clipped off at the tip so that it could be used for cupping blood, or as a funnel for introducing fluids into the body.