The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reedbuck \Reed"buck"\ (-b?k`), n. (Zo["o]l.) See Rietboc.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several African antelopes of the genus (taxlink Redunca genus noshow=1).
Wikipedia
Reedbuck is a common name for African antelopes from the genus Redunca. These species are:
- Southern reedbuck, Redunca arundinum
- Mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula
- Bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca
The reedbuck is 60 up to 90 cm. Its color is reddish brown. The reedbuck lives in eastern Africa Mozambique, Botswana, Somalia and part of Tanzania.
Usage examples of "reedbuck".
Out on the left, Job gave the penny-whistle snort of a reedbuck, one of the most urgent alarm calls in their repertoire.
Herds of dun-coloured reedbuck lived on the grassland under the tall trees.
And not just the big fivethe elephant, rhinoceros, leopard, lion, and cape buffalobut also predators and prey of every ilk: the Nile crocodile, hippo, cheetah, hyena, wildebeest, jackal, giraffe, zebra, waterbuck, kudu, impala, reedbuck, warthog, baboons.
The boy snuggled down under the reedbuck skin and was instantly asleep.
There were reedbucks with horns pricked forward inquisitively and tails like white powder puffs, zebras at a distance looking not striped but a uniform gray color, wildebeests with Roman noses and scraggly beards chasing each other in mindless circles like clowns, stirring the black ash in a cloud around themselves.