hartebeest
noun
any large African antelope of the genus Alcelaphus, having ringed horns that curve backward: some species are endangered.
hartebeests
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pluralof hartebeest.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
There were rhinoceroses, elands, hartebeests, Burchell’s zebras, blue wildebeests, and tsesseby.
From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden
They went very warily now, looking keenly along the base of the little range of kopjes, to see that the hartebeests were not feeding quietly among the scattered bush that grew about the lower slopes.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
Bands of hartebeests and of showy zebras, joined by grotesquely capering wildebeests and by lovely, long-horned gazelles, stood round in a wide, irregular ring, to see their two foes fight to the death.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt
