waterbuck
/waw-ter-buhk, wot-er-/US // ˈwɔ tərˌbʌk, ˈwɒt ər- //UK // (ˈwɔːtəˌbʌk) //
水鸭子,水鸭,水鸡,水鹿
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
Examples
On the way thither, I killed two zebras, a waterbuck and a Thomsonii.
They were: water-buck > waterbuck, Mosambique > Mozambique, and imbody > embody.
The waterbuck swam a little longer, the fine head dropped, the body turned over, and one of the canoes dragged it ashore.
They do like the skin, however, for it is of the waterbuck skin that their best sandals are made.
As a trophy for a wall there are few heads in Africa more noble than that of the waterbuck.
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