gazelle
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4.1
- noun
- /ɡəˈzɛl/
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gacela
- The gazelle gracefully leaped over the tall grass while escaping from a predator.
- Thomson's gazelle
It has to run faster than the slowest gazelle or it won't eat.
- It has to run faster than the slowest gazelle or it won't eat.
- So we're on a long hunt for a gazelle, try to stay alive.
- No, if the the gazelle is fast enough, then the gazelle has the power.
- But you know, every morning in Africa, gazelle wakes up and knows that if he doesn't outrun the fastest lion, he's going to die.
- So if you look at a lion attacking a gazelle in the middle of the Serengeti, the lion is smelling the molecules in the environment.
- I'm going to divide the challenges by our species, but some of these may vary equally across the gazelle, skunks, dolphins and butterflies.
- They would say that, you know, when I when I switch lion for gazelle, lion for cheetah, I also have to switch zebra for gazelle.
- They have more tigers and more gazelles, OK, and more humans, and more poop, and more trees and more apples and more everything.
Examples
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We're gonna leap like a gazelle.
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In the grasslands of Mauritania, a gazelle suffering from tuberculosis takes its last breath.
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Hey Red, you run like a gazelle.
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He runs like a gazelle.
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Separated from the herd, the gazelle senses danger.
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Watch the gazelle, as he grazes through the open plains.
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There were many Thomson's gazelles ahead on the green plain, switching their tails as they fed.
Fiction book (2000) -
No, I think it more likely that you were a gazelle, with long, graceful legs, gamboling through the underbrush.
Fiction book (1994) -
There were herds of wildebeests and Grant's gazelle feeding close to the patches of bush.
Fiction book (2000) -
But you know, every morning in Africa, gazelle wakes up and knows that if he doesn't outrun the fastest lion, he's going to die.
Synonyms
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2.9
An animal with long legs and curved horns that runs fast in Africa and Asia
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6.7
A small thin gazelle from East Africa with a black stripe on its side
A slender, fast antelope that lives in Africa and Asia
A small gazelle from East Africa with a black stripe on its side
A type of gazelle that lives in dry plains of western and central Asia
A small graceful gazelle that lives in the Arabian desert
A small South African gazelle called the springbok that jumps high when it runs
A medium-sized African antelope that jumps high while running
Compounds
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gazelle comes from the Arabic word ghazāl, which meant 'young deer' and was used by people to name the fast, graceful antelope; that's why a gazelle today is a small, very swift animal known for its elegant movement.