reedbuck
Americannoun
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reedbucks,
plural
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reedbuck
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of reedbuck
1825–35; translation of Afrikaans rietbok
Example Sentences
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She had seen many kinds of antelope: waterbuck, duikers, bushbuck, reedbuck, and a few large kudu, whose harsh bark sometimes rang through the forest.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Most of the time you expect reedbuck, but all the time you have to be ready for lion.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon
The reedbuck is another of the smaller antelopes that carries a beautiful head, and, like nearly all of the antelopes, comes in many varieties, or subspecies.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon
Hartbeest, reedbuck, the maned and huge-eared roan antelope, gazelle, and bush-buck, all were here, skull or mask, dominated by the vast head of the wildebeest, with ponderous sickle-curved horns.
From The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The reedbuck has short horns, usually between seven and ten inches in length, but one of our party secured one set of horns ten and a quarter inches long—an exceptionally fine head.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon
About half of the slightly larger reedbucks died as well.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023
We drove deeper into the park through acacia groves and rolling grassland, spotting baboons, klipspringers, reedbucks and warthogs along the road.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
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