blaubok

[ blou-bok ]

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noun

plural blauboks, (especially collectively) blaubok.

a bluish antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus, of southern Africa, having backward curving horns: now extinct.

blaubok

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noun

a large blue-haired antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus , of southern Africa: extinct since 1800 Also calledblue buck

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Word History and Origins

Origin of blaubok¹

< Afrikaans < Dutch blauwbok, equivalent to blauw blue + bok buck ¹

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Word History and Origins

Origin of blaubok¹

C18: via Afrikaans from Dutch blauwbok

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The quagga and the blaubok became extinct before the world learned that their existence was threatened!

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—The first of the African antelopes to become extinct in modern times was a species of large size, closely related to the roan antelope of to-day, and named by the early Dutch settlers of Cape Colony the blaubok, which means "blue-buck."

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