hartebeest
Americannoun
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hartebeests,
plural
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hartebeest
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any large African antelope of the genus Alcelaphus, having ringed horns that curve backward: some species are endangered.
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any of several related African antelopes, as certain species of the genus Damaliscus.
noun
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either of two large African antelopes, Alcelaphus buselaphus or A. lichtensteini, having an elongated muzzle, lyre-shaped horns, and a fawn-coloured coat
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any similar and related animal, such as Damaliscus hunteri ( Hunter's hartebeest )
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Etymology
Origin of hartebeest
From Afrikaans, dating back to 1780–90; see origin at hart, beast
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Warthogs, wild dogs and horse-like antelopes known as hartebeest frequently wind up as road kill.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2019
I scanned the long, high-ceilinged room and located the spot with the closest penguin views: front-right corner, by the Hunter’s hartebeest.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2016
"I shot a nice red hartebeest," Jerry Emhoff, a resident of Watervliet, Michigan, said of one day's hunting.
From US News ● Sep. 2, 2015
Environmental change and rates of evolution: the phylogeographic pattern within the hartebeest complex as related to climatic variation.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 26, 2014
I should never have thought the hartebeest could travel so fast!
From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by J. Percy-Groves
Driven by drought, a procession of game in stretched, incredible battalions passes the tents on the Serengetti plains—first zebras, then hartebeests, buck, cheetahs, gazelles, giraffes, rhinos, wild dogs, all superbly photographed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Antelope and wildebeests, zebra and hartebeests, there seems no end to them in this sportsman's paradise.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
At one moment they would pass a group of giraffe, running in their ungainly fashion to one side; hartebeests, impalla and other varieties of antelope were everywhere, gazing in fearless fashion at the train.
From The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series by Fred J. Arting
Having made for these, they turned out to be hartebeests.
From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
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