waterbuck

waterbuck
/waw"teuhr buk', wot"euhr-/, n.
any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, esp. K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
[1840-50; WATER + BUCK1]

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Species of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) that lives in herds, usually near water, on plains and floodplains and in woodlands and swamps of sub-Saharan Africa.

Waterbucks are almost 5 ft (1.5 m) high at the shoulder. Males have long, heavily ridged horns that curve backward and then upward. The coarse, shaggy coat is grayish, and the rump has a white ring.

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      antelope species of the genus Kobus (q.v.).

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