bushbuck

[boo sh-buhk]

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.

Compare harnessed antelope.

Origin of bushbuck

1850–55; < Afrikaans bosbok, earlier boschbok, equivalent to bos bush¹ + bok buck¹

Also called guib.

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Examples from the Web for bushbuck

Historical Examples of bushbuck

Bushbuck, waterbuck, and lots of other herbivora appeared, but no carnivora.
In Africa
John T. McCutcheon
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
"Oh, he is very cunning," answered the bushbuck, and ran off.
Black Tales for White Children
C. H. Stigand

British Dictionary definitions for bushbuck

bushbuck

boschbok

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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