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gazelle

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ga·zelle  (g-zl)
n.
Any of various small, swift antelopes of the genus Gazella and related genera of Africa and Asia, characteristically having a slender neck and annulate horns.
[French, from Old French, from Arabic azl.]
gazelle
Noun
a small graceful fawn-coloured antelope of Africa and Asia [Arabic ghazāl]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gazellegazelle - small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Gazella, genus Gazella - typical gazelles
Gazella thomsoni, Thomson's gazelle - East African gazelle; the smallest gazelle
Gazella subgutturosa - a kind of gazelle
Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok, springbuck - a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air
Translations
gazelle [gəˈzɛl] n → gacela
gazelle [gəˈzɛl] n → gazelle f
gazelle [gəˈzɛl] n → Gazelle f
gazelle [gəˈzɛl] n → gazzella
gazelle
n gazelle [gəˈzel]
a type of small antelope. springbok غَزال газела gazela gazelle die Gazelle γαζέλα gacela gasell غزال gaselli gazelle צְבִי मृग gazela gazella kijang gasella gazzella ガゼル 가젤 gazelė gazele gazel gazel gaselle gazela gazela gazelă газель gazela gazela gazela gasell ละมั่ง ceylan 小羚羊 газель سینگ دار افریقی ہرنوں میں سے کوئی linh dương gazen 小羚羊
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He had just had a quarrel with his partner on the sloop Gazelle, and knives had been drawn, and blows struck, and he was bent on maddening the fever of the memory with more whisky.
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High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat--a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No.
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All the attitudes and movements of this beautiful animal are graceful and picturesque; and it is altogether as fit a subject for the fanciful uses of the poet as the oft-sung gazelle of the East.
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