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pronghorn antelope

n. fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns [syn: pronghorn, prongbuck, American antelope, Antilocapra americana]

Usage examples of "pronghorn antelope".

When they could, they downed wily pronghorn antelope, skinny mule deer, and shaggy wild horses.

In the distance, a pair of pronghorn antelope were running just below the horizon.

Tool appeared, carrying across his shoulders the carcass of a pronghorn antelope, which he shrugged off to thump on the ground.

I may need you to swear that there were no ibexes or orxys or even pronghorn antelope in view, and that I confirmed you didn’.

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.

It was founded in 1923 and in less than half a century under the Park Service's stewardship lost seven species of mammal--the white-tailed jackrabbit, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, flying squirrel, beaver, red fox, and spotted skunk.

Probably a deer or pronghorn antelope, he thought, from the number of birds and the way they bobbed their heads up and down, consuming the creature that Nature had reclaimed for Herself.

He'd seen bighorn sheep and mountain goats coming down the slopes really close to the cattle, pronghorn antelope grazing at the lower elevations, and prowling coyotes.