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gnu

  [noo, nyoo]
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–noun, plural gnus, (especially collectively) gnu.
either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
Also called wildebeest.

Origin:
1770–80; < Khoikhoi, first recorded as t’gnu; prob. to be identified with ǂnû black, as applying orig. to the black wildebeest
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gnu   (nōō, nyōō)   
n.  Either of two large African antelopes (Connochaetes gnou or C. taurinus) having a drooping mane and beard, a long tufted tail, and curved horns in both sexes. Also called wildebeest.

[Probably from Dutch gnoe, from Xhosa i-ngu, white-tailed gnu, from San !nu, black wildebeest.]
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Word Origin & History

gnu 
1777, from Du. gnoe, used by Ger. traveler Georg Forster (1754-1794) to render Hottentot i-ngu "wildebeest," from Southern Bushman !nu: (in which ! and : represent clicks).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

GNUS tool, networking
GNU news.
A GNU Emacs subsystem for reading and sending Usenet news, written by Masanobu Umeda . You can use GNUS to browse through news groups, look at summaries of articles in a specific group, and read articles of interest. You can respond to authors or write articles or replies to all the readers of a news group.
GNUS can be configured to use the NNTP protocol to get news from a remove server or it can read it from local news spool files.
Usenet newsgorup: gnu.emacs.gnus.
(1995-05-04)

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