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Wildebeest

noun
(pl. wildebeest, wildebeests)
1.
Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail.  Synonym: gnu.





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... thence in a straight line through this beacon to a beacon (No. 9) erected on the top of the same range, about 1,700 yards distant from beacon No. 10; thence in a straight line to a beacon (No. 8) erected on the highest point of an isolated hill called Dikgagong, or "Wildebeest Kop," situated south-eastward of and about 3-1/3 miles distant from a high hill called Moripe; thence in a straight line to a beacon (No. 7) erected on the summit of an isolated hill or "koppie" forming the eastern extremity of the range of hills called Moshweu, situated to the northward ...
— A Century of Wrong • F. W. Reitz
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Words linked to "Wildebeest" :   Connochaetes, genus Connochaetes, gnu, antelope


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