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Definition of Ourebi
1. n. A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.
Definition of Ourebi
1. Noun. (zoology) A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ourebi
1. oribi [n -S] - See also: oribi
Medical Definition of Ourebi
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ourebi
Literary usage of Ourebi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the by David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone (1866)
"... identical with ourebi.—The Poku.—Dr. Livingstone consulted on the Value of
Horses. ... ourebi ..."
2. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"Sometimes, and especially when any suspicious object is only indistinctly observed
in the first bound, the ourebi will make several successive leaps, ..."
3. Wood's Animal Kingdom: Illustrated by John George Wood (1870)
"If, for instance, a dog pursues one of these Antelopes, and follows it through
long grass, the ourebi will make repeated leaps, and by observing the ..."
4. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1901)
"The reason for my reference to the bramble originates in a desire to tell of the
appreciation by the klipspringer and his cousin the ourebi for the berries ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1851)
"The ourebi, which is reputed to be the swiftest of antelopes, is the Antilope
scoparia. ... Some combine them with the ourebi, in the sub-genus ..."
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