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bushbuck

/boosh-buhk/US // ˈbʊʃˌbʌk //UK // (ˈbʊʃˌbʌk) //

灌木丛,灌木丛生,灌木林,灌木树

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bush·bucks, bush·buck.

    • : a large African antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of wooded and bushy regions, having a reddish body streaked or spotted with white.

Examples

  • The film shows how bushbuck—which are named bushbuck because they’re often hiding behind termite mounds in little patches of foliage—were wandering out onto the floodplain and eating different food.

  • But since the incident at the wind-up of the bushbuck hunt the estrangement had widened.

  • They had left the main body to get up a bushbuck hunt on the banks of the Bashi.

  • "Hartebeest, bushbuck and antelope," replied the explorer calmly.

  • Sometimes we have kongoni steaks, at other times we have the heart of waterbuck or the liver of bushbuck or impalla.

  • A bushbuck with fifteen-inch horns is considered a fine prize, although horns of nineteen inches are on record.