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Blesbok

Blesbok \Bles"bok\, n. [D., fr. bles a white spot on the forehead + bok buck.] (Zo["o]l.) A South African antelope ( Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

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blesbok

n. (alternative form of blesbuck English)

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Blesbok

The blesbok or blesbuck (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) is an antelope endemic to South Africa. It has a distinctive white face and forehead which inspired the name, because bles is the Afrikaans word for a blaze such as one might see on the forehead of a horse.

Usage examples of "blesbok".

Alston and Ernest found themselves safe upon Transvaal soil, they determined to give up the idea of following any more big game for the present, and to content themselves with the comparatively humble vilderbeeste, blesbok, springbok, and other small antelopes.

If the blesbok were changing ground, I believed that the hunters were calling out their hounds and getting ready for the chase.

The blesbok was too small and skittish - would only teach our oryx frustration.

After him followed a blesbok, then an impala, then a koodoo, then more goats, and many other animals, including a girl sewn up in the shining scaly hide of a boa-constrictor, several yards of which trailed along the ground behind her.

And here browse countless herds of dappled deer, Blesboks and antelopes, remote from fear.