Crossword clues for gemsbok
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gemsbok \Gems"bok\, n. [D.; akin to G. gemsbock the male or buck of the chamois; gemse chamois, goat of the Alps + bock buck.] (Zo["o]l.) A South African antelope ( Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.
Wiktionary
n. A large African antelope of the ''Oryx'' genus.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The gemsbok or gemsbuck (Oryx gazella) is a large antelope in the Oryx genus. It is native to the arid regions of Southern Africa, such as the Kalahari Desert. Some authorities formerly included the East African oryx as a subspecies.
The gemsbok is depicted on the coat of arms of Namibia, where the current population of the species is estimated at 373,000 individuals.
Usage examples of "gemsbok".
I take off the kaross of genuine gemsbok and, using gui fiber, tie it in front of my hut.
I saw a flash of pale movement among the trees ahead of us, and three stately gemsbok broke out onto the open pan and trotted in single file away from us.
Out on the pan, about six hundred yards from the Land-Rover, the gemsbok had stopped.
Out on the pan the gemsbok erupted into startled flight, galloping diagonally away from us in a bunch.
Out on the pan the leading gemsbok slid over his nose and rolled in a drift of white dust.
Louren in the bright sunlight, that was intensified by the glare of the white salt surface, and watched the gunboys cut the incisions in the skin and flay the gemsbok with the skill of a pair of Harley Street surgeons.
Louren and I ate grilled gemsbok liver and bacon, washed down with warm red Cape wine.
The gemsbok carcasses had attracted a pack of hyena to the camp, and they giggled and screeched out among the thorn trees.
Louren began building himself a sandwich of bread and cold slices of roast gemsbok fillet, smearing it with mustard.
Like runaway construction cranes, giraffe clans loped along above great herds of gemsbok and blue wildebeest.
Her heart, like a gemsbok melon, was brimming with sweetness, and the world seemed altogether lovely, one glorious, balmy wallow.
Alfie is the gemsbok melon of your eye, but your daughters Miss Jane and Odetta are also well beloved of you and your consort.
Kynan even joined the hunt, grinning as he transfixed a silver and black gemsbok with a cloth-yard shaft.
There were gemsbok and eland head to complete the display of larger antelope and next to them, in a cluster of five heads, were the smaller variety of buck: grey duiker, klipspringer, steenbok, reebok, and springbok.
Eve perceived that she was truly in a different world, one in which vehicle headlights might pick out exotic ibex, aodad, or bounding gemsbok as often as native wild whitetail.