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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Springbok \Spring"bok`\ (-b[o^]k`), Springbuck \Spring"buck`\ (-b[u^]k`), n. [D. springbok; springen to spring, leap + bok a he-goat, buck.] (Zo["o]l.) A South African gazelle ( Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lightly and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer. [Written also springboc, and springbock.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small, fast antelope native to southern Africa, ''Antidorcas marsupialis''.
WordNet
n. a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air [syn: springbuck, Antidorcas marsupialis, Antidorcas euchore]
Wikipedia
The springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) is a medium-sized antelope found mainly in southern and southwestern Africa. The sole member of the genus Antidorcas, this bovid was first described by the German zoologist Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1780. Three subspecies are identified. A slender, long-legged antelope, the springbok reaches at the shoulder and weighs between . Both sexes have a pair of black, long horns that curve backward. The springbok is characterised by a white face, a dark stripe running from the eyes to the mouth, a light brown coat marked by a reddish brown stripe that runs from the upper foreleg to the buttocks across the flanks, and a white rump flap.
Active mainly at dawn and dusk, springbok form harems (mixed-sex herds). In earlier times, springbok of the Kalahari desert and Karoo would migrate in large numbers across the countryside, a practice known as trekbokken. A feature unique to the springbok is pronking, in which the springbok performs multiple leaps into the air, up to above the ground, in a stiff-legged posture, with the back bowed and the white flap lifted. Primarily a browser, the springbok feeds on shrubs and succulents; this antelope can live without drinking water for years, meeting its requirements through eating succulent vegetation. Breeding takes place year-round, and peaks in the rainy season, when forage is most abundant. A single calf is born after a five to six month long pregnancy; weaning occurs at nearly six months of age, and the calf leaves its mother a few months later.
Springbok inhabit the dry areas of south and southwestern Africa. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN) classifies the springbok as a Least Concern species. There are no major threats to the long-term survival of the species; the springbok, in fact, is one of the few antelope species considered to have an expanding population. They are popular game animals, and are valued for their meat and skin. The springbok is the national animal of South Africa.
A springbok is small antelope native southern and western Africa.
Springbok may also refer to:
- The South Africa national rugby union team, known as the Springboks.
- Springbok colours, formerly awarded to South African sportsmen and women representing the country in international competition
- Springbok, Northern Cape, a town in South Africa.
- Springbok, the callsign of South African Airways
- The South Africa national cricket team used to be known as the Springboks, but are now referred to as the Proteas
- Springbok (horse) for the American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1873 Belmont Stakes
- Springbok (greyhounds), a leading novice hurdle competition in the greyhound racing calendar
- Springbok Radio, a former South African radio station
- Gladiators: Springbok Challenge, a series of specials for the Gladiators television sport franchise
Springbok (1870–1897) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the seventh Belmont Stakes in 1873. Foaled in 1870, he was sired by the imported stallion Australian, his dam was a daughter of Lexington. During his racing career he started 25 races, winning 17 of them. Besides the Belmont, Springbok won the Saratoga Cup twice, in 1874 and 1875 and was named Champion Older Male horse in 1874 and 1875. After retiring from the racetrack, he sired five stakes winners and died in 1897.
The Springbok is a greyhound racing competition held annually at Wimbledon Stadium.
It was inaugurated in 1937 at the White City Stadium in London and was held until its closure in 1985 when it switched to Wimbledon. The event is the leading competition for novice hurdlers.
Usage examples of "springbok".
Springbok and pronghorns are filtering in from out of the wild, replacing the bison.
The barracouta ignored the lines but some, like those luckless springbok of the giant herds which impale themselves on barbed wire while the others push until the wire breaks, got caught up in the hooks.
Hell, Harry Mearns wouldn't know what to do with a combine harvester unless it had a grenade launcher under the seat, while his sum total of expertise in animal husbandry had been gained from sadistic drunken forays into every black bordello between North Africa and the Springbok border.
The great springbok herds deserted the land, the kudu and the hartebeest, too, they all died or moved away.
As the train ran on they saw wonder followed by wonder, taller buildings than they had ever believed possible, roads that ran like rivers of steel with growling vehicles, tall chimneys that filled the sky with black thunderclouds, and multitudes upon multitudes, human beings more numerous than the springbok migrations of the Kalahari, black men in silver helmets and knee-high rubber boots, regiments of them, marching towards the tall headgears or, as the shifts changed, wearily swarming back from the shafts splashed from head to foot with yellow mud.
Mingled with the flocks of merino sheep were vast herds of springbok.
It consisted of game--blauwbok, springbok, steinbok, klipspringer, hartebeest, wildebeest, the black and the blue--no lobster at all, and it took even longer to eat.
As Centaine watched, the nearest antelopes took fright at the human presence, and began stotting, the characteristic alarm behaviour that gave them their name of springbok.
The alarm stotting was wildly infectious, and across the plain hundreds of springbok bounced on high, with white manes flashing.
Koen Brits was the other Boer leader they were waiting for, that giant of granite, standing six foot six inches tall, who could drink a bottle of fiery Cape Smoke the way a lesser man might quaff a mug of ginger beer, who could lift a trek ox off its feet, spit a stream of tobacco juice a measured twenty paces and with his Mauser hit a running springbok at two hundred paces.