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Definition of Gerenuk
1. Noun. Slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns.
Generic synonyms: Antelope
Group relationships: Genus Litocranius, Litocranius
Definition of Gerenuk
1. Noun. A long-necked gazelle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gerenuk
1. a long-necked antelope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gerenuk
Literary usage of Gerenuk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa by Edward Bennet (1914)
"Waller's gazelle, commonly called the gerenuk, is a handsome little animal, ...
The giraffe, the camel, and the gerenuk all show this adaption of the animal ..."
2. With the Abyssinians in Somaliland by James Willes Jennings (1905)
"... him—Further accounts of the operations— Extended shooting expeditions—A three
days' shoot—Oryx— gerenuk—The Colonel's achievement A GOOD Somali shikari, ..."
3. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"The gerenuk was first described by Sir Victor Brooke from specimens received ...
Herr Oscar Neumann, in 1899, described the gerenuk of Somaliland as a new ..."
4. Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions by Rowland Ward (1899)
"Even more aberrant than the last is the gerenuk, in which the elongation of the
neck attains its supreme development, while the slender legs are lengthened ..."
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