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- noun Plural form of
eland .
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Examples
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By-and-by they met with a troop of great deer, called elands, and they stopped when they saw Thakane and sang:
The Brown Fairy Book 2003
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By-and-by they met with a troop of great deer, called elands, and they stopped when they saw Thakane and sang:
The Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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The huge and unwieldy hippopotamus wallowed in the stream, and herds of wild animals, such as elands, koodoos, and antelopes, were gathered beneath the shade of the forests that bounded the
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The beasts, known as "elands," were introduced to Israel from east Africa in the 1970s, to fill zoos.
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The beasts, known as "elands," were introduced to Israel from east Africa in the 1970s, to fill zoos.
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They chased giraffes, elands, and kudu while fighting off mambas, lions, and leopards.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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We flew over the top of a hill so fast we left the ground, only to find a herd of elands blocking our path.
BELLY UP STUART GIBBS 2010
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We flew over the top of a hill so fast we left the ground, only to find a herd of elands blocking our path.
BELLY UP STUART GIBBS 2010
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HOLLMAN: We just call this the eland panel (ph), because there are so many elands here.
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They are generally of a white color, and are quite wild, running off with graceful ease like a herd of elands on the approach of a stranger.
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