hartebeest
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- noun
- /ˈhɑːrtəˌbiːst/
- South African
- Along with regular beef, pork, lamb, and chicken, I had hartebeest meatballs, zebra steak, and crocodile barbecue.
- hartebeests and waterbuck
- hartebeest and zebra
- hartebeests and topi
Examples
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Bakht rounded the corner of a pen containing hartebeests and rumbled to himself, "He's dead."
Fiction book (1998) -
Hartebeest tastes like beef with a bitter aftertaste.
Blog text (2) -
That is actually a remarkably small area for such a big animal (a hartebeest bull, in contrast, may control a territory a hundred times as large).
Academic text (2006) -
There's a hartebeest.
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Hippo, hart, and hartebeest drove him from their herds, trapped him with their catcalls, skinned him with their words.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the African savannah, a herd of hartebeest grazes peacefully under the warm sun.
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The distinctive lyre-shaped horns of the hartebeest make it easy to identify among other antelopes.
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During our safari, we spotted several hartebeest running swiftly across the grasslands.
Synonyms
A group of large African antelopes called hartebeests with long heads and sloping backs
A large African antelope with a long face and curved horns
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hartebeest comes from the Dutch parts hart ('deer') and beest ('beast'), and the hart part is the same as the old English word 'hart' for a deer. So it literally means 'deer-beast', which fits this large African antelope with a sloping back and curved horns.