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Waterbuck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of several African antelopes of the genus Kobus, having curved ridged horns and frequenting swamps, rivers, and other bodies of water.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A species of antelope endemic to Africa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers

Word Usage

"There are two kinds of waterbuck that the East African hunter will find in the course of his travels, the common waterbuck which we saw in such numbers on the Tana River, and the Defassa, or "sing-sing" waterbuck, which is found in the higher altitudes up toward the Mau escarpment and"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

antelope

Hyponym

kobus kob kobus leche lechwe kob

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