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- noun Plural form of
waterbuck .
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Examples
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Thanks to my true friend waterbucks who insisted I write the full story after a two line Tweet.
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Mountain reedbucks, bongo antelopes, Leche waterbucks and greater kudus glide gracefully across the 111-acre open-air park.
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He said the disease may be transmitted to animals in the park like rare antelopes, waterbucks and buffalo.
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Other animals under threat include Thompson gazelles, Grant gazelles, impalas, hartebeests, ostriches, warthogs and waterbucks.
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We passed a baby rhino with parents and friends and saw some waterbucks.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
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We passed a baby rhino with parents and friends and saw some waterbucks.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
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Soon afterwards we come upon a herd of waterbucks, which here are very much darker in colour, and drier in flesh, than the same species near the sea.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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After breakfast we draw near a pond of water; a couple of elephants stand on its bank, and, at a respectful distance behind these monarchs of the wilderness, is seen a herd of zebras, and another of waterbucks.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Buffaloes, zebras, pallahs, and waterbucks abound, and there is also a great abundance of wild pigs, koodoos, and the black antelope.
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On these holmes herds of buffaloes and waterbucks daily graze in security, as they have in the reedy marshes a refuge into which they can run on the approach of danger.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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