springbok
noun
a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.
springboks
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pluralof springbok.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Witek finds giraffes, rhinos, hippos, baboons, one nasty-looking crocodile, wart hogs, kudus, wildebeest, mongooses, zebras, springboks, impalas but only a trace of lions — a half-eaten elephant carcass alongside a pond.
From New York Times β Dec. 23, 2010
All the springboks playing baseball, the pandas who controlled the big wooden slides, even the nerdy pangolins who played D&D in the shade of the library.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
The others left off browsing, and several of them were seen to bound up into the air—after the very singular manner of springboks.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
Within the frontier districts, springboks are plenty, as also the common wildebeests; and piles of the horns of these may be seen lying around the kraals of every vee-boor.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
They were neither gnoos, nor springboks, nor hartebeests, nor any of the common kinds that the party had already met with, and had hunted to their satisfaction.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
