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Large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward
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hartebeest
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1786, from Afrikaans, from Dutch hertebeest "antelope," from hert "hart" (see hart ) + beest "beast, ox" (in S.African Dutch "steer, cattle"), from Middle Dutch beeste, from Old French beste "beast" (see beast ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The hartebeest , also known as kongoni , is an African antelope , first described by the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. Eight subspecies have been described, including two sometimes considered to be independent species. A large antelope, the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hartbeest \Hart"beest`\, Hartebeest \Har"te*beest`\(-b[=e]st`), n. [D. hertebeest. See Hart , and Beast .] (Zo["o]l.) A large South African antelope ( Alcelaphus caama ), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of grassland antelope, (taxlink Alcelaphus buselaphus species noshow=1), native to parts of Africa
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward
Usage examples of hartebeest.
The great springbok herds deserted the land, the kudu and the hartebeest, too, they all died or moved away.
Their bellies were stuffed with the meat of the hartebeest, the first time in over a month that they had eaten their fill.
Mixed with them were herds of brilliant yellow and red hartebeest, purple sassaby, and the great bovine eland, striped and maned and majestic.
I used to sit out on that lodge veranda with the sun rising, hartebeest, zebra and wildebeest grazing within yards of me.
Paintings made by ancient Egyptians show that they further tamed (not surprisingly) hoofed mammals such as gazelles and hartebeests, birds such as cranes, more surprisingly giraffes (which can be dangerous), and most astonishingly hyenas.
It consisted of game--blauwbok, springbok, steinbok, klipspringer, hartebeest, wildebeest, the black and the blue--no lobster at all, and it took even longer to eat.