springbok

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from Afrikaans springbok, from Dutch springbok, from springen (“to jump, spring”) + bok (“buck, billy goat, antelope”).

The old baboon had retired to the hills with his family; the springbok and the wart-hog had moved up Bulawayo way; the cheetah and the lynx had followed them.... — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
The former says--"We pursued our journey over extensive plains, still parched by severe drought, and undulating heights clothed with a brown and scanty herbage, and sprinkled over with numerous herds of springbok. — Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals, R., Mrs. Lee
There was a wonderful profusion of antelopes,--thirty-one species have been enumerated,--including such noble animals as the eland and koodoo, such beautiful ones as the springbok and klipspringer, such fierce ones as the blue wildebeest or gnu. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

springbuck, Antidorcas marsupialis, Antidorcas euchore

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