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pronghorn

/prawng-hawrn, prong-/US // ˈprɔŋˌhɔrn, ˈprɒŋ- //UK // (ˈprɒŋˌhɔːn) //

代名词,代尔夫,代尔夫特

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural prong·horns, prong·horn.

    • : a fleet, antelopelike ruminant, Antilocapra americana, of the plains of western North America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.

Examples

  • In Wyoming’s Red Desert, for instance, he’s studied how wild horses often drive antelope-like pronghorn from watering holes.

  • In the huntThis is the first day of Wolfe’s fifth year trying to run down a pronghorn.

  • The antelope is known as the pronghorn, because of a single small prong on each horn.

  • Wolves and coyotes pursue the pronghorn in relays or capture it strategically through various kinds of mutual aid.

  • Davis said Capt. Bush allowed the soldiers with experience to use the Army rifles to hunt deer and pronghorn.

  • The Pronghorn is a gregarious creature running in bands of six up to hundreds.

  • The pronghorn was also rare in the state and now has been extirpated as it has been in many other parts of Mxico.