reedbuck

American  

[reed-buhk] / ˈridˌbʌk /

noun

plural

reedbucks,

plural

reedbuck

1. any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.

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reedbuck British  

/ ˈriːdˌbʌk /

noun

1. any antelope of the genus Redunca , of Africa south of the Sahara, having a buff-coloured coat and inward-curving horns

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Etymology

Origin of reedbuck

1825–35; translation of Afrikaans rietbok

Example Sentences

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 Literature

Herbivores were the first to bounce back in post-conflict Gorongosa, and today the park pulses with more than 100,000 of them: blue wildebeest, buffalo, impala, hippo, waterbuck, reedbuck, elephant, eland, nyala, oribi, the hauntingly beautiful sable, the disturbingly furry bushpig.

From New York Times

Wildlife habitat The valley is home to buffalo, baboon, bushpig, crocodile, eland, elephant, hartebeest, puku antelope, reedbuck, sable, waterbuck, weaver bird and zebra.

From The Guardian

The game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu.

From Time Magazine Archive

The face has the ordinary gazelle-markings; but the rather short horns—which are wanting in the female—have a peculiar upward and forward curvature, unlike that obtaining in the gazelles 91 and somewhat resembling that of the reedbuck.

From Project Gutenberg