rhebok

American

[ree-bok] / ˈriˌbɒk /

noun

a large, deerlike South African antelope, Pelea capreolus, with pale-gray, curly fur and straight horns.

rhebok British

/ ˈriːbʌk, -bɒk /

noun

an antelope, Pelea capreolus , of southern Africa, having woolly brownish-grey hair

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Etymology

Origin of rhebok

1825–35; < Afrikaans ribbok, Dutch reebok; cognate with roebuck, German Rehbock

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We were after rhebok, the dun kind, and I recollected how we had followed one beast, and both he and I had clean lost it.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

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