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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. 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.