gemsboks

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of gemsbok.
  gemsbok

  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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gemsboks

At the summit, she pauses to drink in the view--and the silence--while the gemsboks peer at her from behind a live oak.

From Time Magazine Archive

With one bound he cleared the wide space that separated him from the nearest of the gemsboks, alighting on the hind-quarters of the terrified animal.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

We have, however, still herds of antelopes of all kinds, springboks, gemsboks, elands, koodoos, hartebeests, and gnus.

From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams

The gemsboks advanced steadily towards the ant-hill, occasionally switching about their black bushy tails; but that was to rid their flanks of the flies, and not from any apprehension of danger.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

He was dead—as Julius Caesar or a door-nail, and so, too, was the brace of gemsboks.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

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