steenbok

steen·bok (st

, st

-) also stein·bok (st

A small antelope (Raphicerus campestris) of southern and eastern Africa, having a brownish coat and short, pointed horns in the male and living chiefly in dry grasslands.

[Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch steenboc, ibex : steen, stone; see sti- in Indo-European roots + boc, buck.]

steenbok [ˈstiːnˌbɒk]

n pl -boks, -bok

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a small antelope, Raphicerus campestris, of central and southern Africa, having a reddish-brown coat and straight smooth horns Also called steinbok

[from Afrikaans, from Dutch steen stone + bok buck¹; Compare steinbock]

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Noun

steenbok - small plains antelope of southeastern Africa

Raphicerus campestris, steinbok

antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks

genus Raphicerus, Raphicerus - African antelopes: steenboks

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The scenery here is gentler, with broad grasslands and valleys of rock and stream, and there is a wide variety of plains game, from the tiny, delicate steenbok to the massive eland, the largest of the antelopes.

Where the wild things are: a growing number of Africans, from the ... by African Business

Others included a jackal, zebra, warthog, honey badger, steenbok and giraffe.

WHEN HARRY MET DADDY ..the biggest danger to wildlife in Africa) by The Mirror (London, England)

THE TINY STEENBOK was nearly broadside, drinking the few remaining drops of water from a warthog's wallow rather than coming to the main waterhole.

Diverse Africa: for endless variety, contrast, and action bowhunters ... by Holt, Dave / Bowhunter

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