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Eland   Listen
noun
Eland  n.  
1.
(Zoöl.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; called also Cape elk.
2.
(Zoöl.) The elk or moose.





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"Eland" Quotes from Famous Books



... trees above the sinuous Gombe thought, and probably with good reason that I was after them; judging by the ready flight with which both species disappeared as they sighted my approach. Ah, no! nothing but hartebeest, zebra, giraffe, eland, and buffalo this day! After following the Gombe's course for about a mile, delighting my eyes with long looks at the broad and lengthy reaches of water to which I was so long a stranger, I came upon a ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley


Words linked to "Eland" :   giant eland, common eland, antelope


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