springbok

The springbok ordinarily makes its home in the arid, sandy plains called karroos.
The World and Its People: Book VII|Anna B. Badlam
The general color of the springbok is a tawny brown on the upper parts of the body.
The World and Its People: Book VII|Anna B. Badlam
Once I dashed into a herd of trekking game so suddenly, that a springbok, unable to stop itself, leapt right over me.
Marie|H. Rider Haggard
It was in these circumstances that we set out shortly before midnight in the pitch darkness from Springbok Valley.
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919|Captain W. C. C. Weetman

I am fairly good with a knife, and I carved very presentable likenesses of a monkey, a springbok, and a rhinoceros.
Greenmantle|John Buchan

British Dictionary definitions for springbok (1 of 2)

springbok

less commonly springbuck

/ (ˈsprɪŋˌbʌk) /

noun plural -bok, -boks, -buck or -bucks

an antelope, Antidorcas marsupialis, of semidesert regions of southern Africa, which moves in leaps exposing a patch of white erectile hairs on the rump that are usually covered by a fold of skin

Word Origin for springbok

C18: from Afrikaans, from Dutch springen to spring + bok goat, buck 1

British Dictionary definitions for springbok (2 of 2)

Springbok

/ (ˈsprɪŋˌbʌk, -ˌbɒk) /

noun

a person who has represented South Africa at rugby union

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