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Definition of Giraffes
1. giraffe [n] - See also: giraffe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giraffes
Literary usage of Giraffes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by Frederick Courteney Selous (1908)
"CHAPTER XI NOTES ON THE GIRAFFE Appearance of the giraffe—Not a vanishing
species—Immense range—Habitat—Native mounted hunters—Destruction of giraffes and ..."
2. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"giraffes for some years past have not been uncommon animals in our ... On a brick
wall at Chiswick the words, " to the giraffes," inscribed in huge white ..."
3. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"CHAPTER XI THE RETICULATED AND COMMON giraffes giraffes ... living giraffes are
so well separated by the character of their peculiar body shape and short, ..."
4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1843)
"giraffes.— Aspect of the Political Horizon.—The great Question of the Revolution
undecided.—Nomination of Deputies to the Mexican Congress. ..."
5. Read & Understand, Nonfiction Grades 4-6 by Tekla N. White, Marilyn Evans, Evan-Moor Corporation (1999)
"Some giraffes have large, straight-edged spots that are close together. ...
A few giraffes are a single color. A giraffe's short hair always looks clean ..."
6. Natural History of Man: Being an Account of the Manners and Customs of the by John George Wood (1874)
"The clay model of the giraffes IN PITFALL. footprints serves them as a guide
whereby they may assure themselves that they are on the right track whenever ..."
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