blue antelope
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (now historical) A bluebuck of the extinct species †Hippotragus leucophaeus. [from 18th c.]
- 1777, Georg Forster, A Voyage Round the World, University of Hawai‘i Press, published 2000, page 59:
- The blue antelope, (blauwe bock) is really of a blueish colour, but when killed soon loses the velvet-like appearance of its fur.