bushbuck

[ boosh-buhk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural bush·bucks, (especially collectively) bush·buck.

a large African antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of wooded and bushy regions, having a reddish body streaked or spotted with white.

bushbuck

/ ˈbʊʃˌbʌk /

a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus , of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings

1850–55; < Afrikaans bosbok, earlier boschbok, equivalent to bos bush ¹ + bok buck ¹

But since the incident at the wind-up of the bushbuck hunt the estrangement had widened.

They had left the main body to get up a bushbuck hunt on the banks of the Bashi.

"Hartebeest, bushbuck and antelope," replied the explorer calmly.

Sometimes we have kongoni steaks, at other times we have the heart of waterbuck or the liver of bushbuck or impalla.

A bushbuck with fifteen-inch horns is considered a fine prize, although horns of nineteen inches are on record.

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