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Definition of Oribi
1. Noun. (''animal, South African English'') The ''Ourebia ourebi'' species of antelope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oribi
1. an African antelope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oribi
Literary usage of Oribi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa by Edward Bennet (1914)
"The oribi, suni, steinbok, and klipspringer are a group of small antelopes ...
The oribi are the largest antelope in the group, and have a bare spot beneath ..."
2. Big Game Shooting by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1905)
"THE CAPE oribi This is another diminutive antelope, found in Eastern Cape Colony,
Natal, Zululand, Barotseland, the Eastern Transvaal, part of Mashonaland, ..."
3. Africa from South to North Through Marotseland by Alfred St. Hill Gibbons (1904)
"... quadrupeds — Compensation in honey — A day's tailoring — Fine open downs —
Zebra, buffalo, and oribi— SABOU loses himself—Brought in by natives next day ..."
4. Wild Game in Zambezia by Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham (1914)
"... IMPALA t DUIKER : LIVINGSTONE'S ANTELOPE : oribi : KLIPSPRINGER : STEENBUCK
UNTIL Major Statham discovered that rare and < ) 7 -^ beautiful form, ..."
5. In Haunts of Wild Game: A Hunter-naturalist's Wanderings from Kahlamba to by Frederick Vaughan Kirby (1896)
"A few more paces and I saw an oribi ram lying low in the short grass, just beyond
a large Hat stone, which would have hidden it from view had I been on the ..."
6. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"Normally the oribi prefers to go singly or in couples. ... The oribi is a grass-eater.
We generally found it near water, but in the Lado we came across ..."
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