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noun

Hartebeest, Hartbeest n.

(Zool.) A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. (Written also hartebeest, and hartebest)

Any anteleope of the genus Alcelaphus and certain species of Darnaliscus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hartebeest" Quotes from Famous Books

... Koranas—those of the valley of the Hartebeest River—deserves particular attention. They caution us against overvaluing differences; and Dr. Prichard has quoted the evidence of Mr. Thompson with this especial object. They are Koranas who have suffered ...

— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham

... words, African brogues for me. These shoes were worthy of a sportsman, being light, yet strong, and were entirely composed of the skins of game of my shooting. The soles were made of either buffalo or cameleopard; the front part, perhaps, of koodoo, or hartebeest, or bushbuck, and the back of the shoe of lion, or hyaena, or sable antelope, while the rheimpy or thread with which the whole was sewed, consisted of a thin strip of ...

— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman

Words linked to "Hartebeest" : antelope, genus Alcelaphus, Alcelaphus