Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A South African antelope (Damaliscus pygargus subsp. phillipsi syn. D. dorcas subsp. phillipsi) having a reddish-brown coat, curved horns, and a white mark on the face.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large bubaline or alcela-phine antelope of South Africa, Damalis or Alcelaphus albifrons, with a white face or blaze.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A South African antelope (
Alcelaphus albifrons ), having a large white spot on the forehead.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
blesbuck .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was a package deal offered in partnership with a South African outfit called Frontier Safaris -- the package allowed a duiker, a warthog, an impala, a blesbok, a gemsbok, two species of springbok, a bushbok, a wildebeest, and a kudu.
Plains Game Safari Photos from South Africa's East Cape 2009
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The previous morning, I had taken a blesbok antelope.
African Dream Hunt 2007
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‘The blesbok are changing ground,’ he said, and looked me straight in the face.
Prester John 2005
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If the blesbok were changing ground, I believed that the hunters were calling out their hounds and getting ready for the chase.
Prester John 2005
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The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
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Before we started next morning, a huge herd of blesbok suddenly appeared on the scene, wildly galloping about in every direction, being continually brought up by the barbed wire fences of the farms.
The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer
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'The blesbok are changing ground,' he said, and looked me straight in the face.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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The aasvogels follow me, and I can hear the blesbok. '
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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If the blesbok were changing ground, I believed that the hunters were calling out their hounds and getting ready for the chase.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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They followed the spoor of a company of elephants in the East country, they watched through the November mist the blesbok flying across the veld, a herd of quaggas taking cover with the rheebok, or a cloud of locusts sailing out of the sun to devastate the green lands.
The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897
reesetee commented on the word blesbok
A species of South African antelope with a blaze on its face.
November 6, 2007