Crossword clues for pronghorn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pronghorn \Prong"horn`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American antelope ( Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabr['e]e, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.
Wiktionary
n. A North American mammal, ''Antilocapra americana'', that resembles an antelope.
WordNet
n. fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns [syn: prongbuck, pronghorn antelope, American antelope, Antilocapra americana]
Wikipedia
The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution.
It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During the Pleistocene period, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America. Three other genera existed when humans entered North America ( Capromeryx, Stockoceros and Tetrameryx), but are now extinct.
As a member of the superfamily Giraffoidea, the pronghorn's closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. The Giraffoidea are in turn members of the infraorder Pecora, making pronghorns more distant relatives of the Cervidae ( deer) and Bovidae ( cattle, goats, sheep, and antelopes), among others.
Usage examples of "pronghorn".
Sounds came from the edge of the world: a truck growling on the horizon, the whispering rumble of pronghorn antelope as they loped across the land, the howl of a coyote.
Tool appeared, carrying across his shoulders the carcass of a pronghorn antelope, which he shrugged off to thump on the ground.
When they could, they downed wily pronghorn antelope, skinny mule deer, and shaggy wild horses.
She put aside her cloak to give freedom to her arms, strung her bow, and held her head high as might a pronghorn buck on herd sentry, listening.
Once there, he dropped until his belly fur nearly scraped the moss and advanced with the same caution he would have used in stalking a very wary pronghorn watch bull.
In addition, Guret had shot a small pronghorn and his two fellow tribesmen had knocked over some long-legged, gaunt-bodied birds they flushed out of the grass in their going.
Buffalo, pronghorn, and even prairie elk had grazed the Flint Hills for thousands of years before the first cows, of course.
So as he and Waco rode along, Longarm was just as glad to see the Flint Hills offered few temptations to anything but cows, although back in the Shining Times of the Kansa he suspected the pronghorn and other browsers had kept down the encroaching brush a bit better.
It was entirely feasible that a missile aimed at, say, a missile silo in North Dakota might have strayed a few hundred miles and instead obliterated a grazing herd of pronghorn antelope in South Dakota.
A half-dozen pronghorn antelope bounded out of the smoke, saw the men on the fire line, and veered off.
But when the cat came back a day later, he was all business, hustling her immediately into the hovercar and winging away at treetop level, sending pronghorns scattering over the savanna.
There must have been little hunting hereabouts for years, since the pronghorns and the hares were easy to bring down.
The only life they sighted other than their own party were small family herds of pronghorns, grass hens, and once something which withdrew hurriedly within a pile of rocks but let forth a snarl as they passed some distance away.
Springbok and pronghorns are filtering in from out of the wild, replacing the bison.
Naked pelvises sat astride the ivory-colored spines of horses and mules, zebras and okapis, kudu and pronghorn.