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Definition of Bushbuck
1. Noun. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
Group relationships: Genus Strepsiceros, Genus Tragelaphus, Strepsiceros, Tragelaphus
Generic synonyms: Harnessed Antelope
Definition of Bushbuck
1. Noun. An antelope (''Tragelaphus scriptus'') that is found in Sub-Saharan Africa. ¹
2. Noun. (informal) Occasionally used for any relatives of above that share its inhabitant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bushbuck
1. a small antelope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bushbuck
Literary usage of Bushbuck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nyasaland Under the Foreign Office by Hector Livingston Duff (1906)
"The sides of the bushbuck are irregularly marked with streaks and spots of white,
... As his name implies, the bushbuck is essentially a bush-dweller, ..."
2. Harvard African Studies by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology African Dept (1922)
"After a time as he lay there unable to move, he spied a bushbuck with his mate
... So the bushbuck assented and led the leopard to his home where beans were ..."
3. Through the Zulu Country: Its Battlefields and Its People by Bertram Mitford (1883)
"... bushbuck ' drive '—Native hunters— Return to Maritzburg—Afloat again. BEING in
Zululand for purposes of travel I did not lay myself out at all for sport ..."
4. Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia: With by Harald G. C. Swayne (1903)
"... Somalis—First news of the Webbe bushbuck— Shooting a crocodile—Great beauty
of our camp on the Webbe banks— Galla raids on the ..."
5. Sport in East Central Africa: Being an Account of Hunting Trips in by Frederick Vaughan Kirby (1899)
"... bull—We lose our way —A startling occurrence—Endeavour to reach camp—A miserable
night—bushbuck shot—A looted camp—Lose photographs and butterflies—Find ..."
6. Wild Game in Zambezia by Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham (1914)
"... bushbuck : REEDBUCK : IMPALA t DUIKER : LIVINGSTONE'S ANTELOPE : ORIBI :
KLIPSPRINGER : STEENBUCK UNTIL Major Statham discovered that rare and < ) 7 ..."
7. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"we never saw bushbuck in such country or in the neighborhood of such companions.
In Uganda the bushbuck— another form of harnessed bushbuck—lived in wet, ..."
8. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"I shot a couple of bushbuck, a ewe and a young ram; and after the drive was over
he shot ... There were a number of both reedbuck and bushbuck in the swamp. ..."
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