bushbuck

[ boosh-buhk ]

/ ˈbʊʃˌbʌk /

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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.

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Also called guib.

Compare harnessed antelope.

Origin of bushbuck

1850–55; <Afrikaans bosbok, earlier boschbok, equivalent to bosbush¹ + bokbuck¹

Words nearby bushbuck

bush-bash, bushbashing, bush bean, bushbeater, bush broom, bushbuck, bush canary, bush carpenter, bush clover, bushcraft, bushed

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How to use bushbuck in a sentence

I don’t know that there’s any kind of trophic cascade expected from the dogs where the change in bushbuck diet is going to yield a major change in Gorongosa vegetation.
Nature’s Fear Factor - Issue 107: The Edge|Brandon Keim|September 29, 2021|Nautilus
It’s going to change bushbuck diet, which might change the way bushbuck compete with some other browsers and grazers, which might influence the ability of some other things to get better established.
Nature’s Fear Factor - Issue 107: The Edge|Brandon Keim|September 29, 2021|Nautilus
The film shows how bushbuck—which are named bushbuck because they’re often hiding behind termite mounds in little patches of foliage—were wandering out onto the floodplain and eating different food.
Nature’s Fear Factor - Issue 107: The Edge|Brandon Keim|September 29, 2021|Nautilus
But since the incident at the wind-up of the bushbuck hunt the estrangement had widened.
The White Hand and the Black|Bertram Mitford

They had left the main body to get up a bushbuck hunt on the banks of the Bashi.
'Tween Snow and Fire|Bertram Mitford
"Hartebeest, bushbuck and antelope," replied the explorer calmly.
The Blind Lion of the Congo|Elliott Whitney
Sometimes we have kongoni steaks, at other times we have the heart of waterbuck or the liver of bushbuck or impalla.
In Africa|John T. McCutcheon
A bushbuck with fifteen-inch horns is considered a fine prize, although horns of nineteen inches are on record.
In Africa|John T. McCutcheon

British Dictionary definitions for bushbuck

bushbuck

boschbok

/ (ˈbʊʃˌbʌk) /

noun plural -bucks, -buck, -boks or -bok

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

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