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gemsbok
[ gemz-bok ]
noun
- a large antelope, Oryx gazella, the largest of the oryxes, found in arid regions of southern Africa, including the Kalahari Desert, having a long black tail and conspicuous black striping on the face and from the chin to the front legs and along each lower flank to the rear legs: despite being widely hunted for their nearly straight horns, which are about 33 inches (84 centimeters) long on the males and slightly longer on the females, gemsbok have a conservation status of least concern.
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Example Sentences
The gemsbok is of about the same size as the kudu, and is gray in color above and white below.
Another very fine antelope is the gemsbok, which is found in the more desert regions of Southwestern Africa.
The antelope was dead, but the lion still alive; though the horns of the gemsbok had passed through his body.
Swinton was anxious to possess one or two more specimens of the oryx, or gemsbok.
The Oryx, or Gemsbok, is a middle-sized species, dwelling in the same neighbourhood with the gnus.
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