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Definition of Hartebeests
1. hartebeest [n] - See also: hartebeest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hartebeests
Literary usage of Hartebeests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Big Game Shooting by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1905)
"THE BASTARD hartebeests Within the last few years, Mr. Lydekker, ... In shape it
resembles the hartebeests, frequents by preference open plains and thin ..."
2. African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by Frederick Courteney Selous (1908)
"... although they are often referred to as valuable observations by writers on
natural history. Thus it has been said that hartebeests, which are ..."
3. Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia: With by Harald G. C. Swayne (1903)
"... meeting with Abyssinians—Disturbed country—English sportsmen met at Hargeisa—Fresh
start from Hargeisa—Incessant rains—Thousands of hartebeests near ..."
4. Horns and Hoofs: Or Chapters on Hoofed Animals by Richard Lydekker (1893)
"The larger groups into which the African antelopes may be divided are six in
number, and are as follows, viz. : (i) hartebeests ..."
5. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-life by Abel Chapman (1908)
"So riveted had my attention been upon the leader, with no eye for his companions
during NEUMANN'S hartebeests. a two-hour chase, that it was only when Elmi ..."
6. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"Taken as a whole, in the parts of Africa we traversed, hartebeests were at least
three or four times as numerous as any other horned animal. ..."
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