Definition of Lechwes

1. lechwe [n] - See also: lechwe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lechwes

lecherers
lecheries
lechering
lecherously
lecherousness
lecherousnesses
lechers
leches
leching
lechonera
lechoneras
lechs
lechwe
lechwes (current term)
lechy
lecithal
lecithin
lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase
lecithin-cholesterol transferase
lecithin-retinol acyltransferase
lecithin/sphingomyelin ratio
lecithin acyltransferase
lecithin acyltransferase deficiency
lecithinase
lecithinase A
lecithinase B
lecithinase C
lecithinase D

Literary usage of Lechwes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"In habits they differed from the saddle-back lechwes, for they were found on dry land, often where the grass was quite short, and went freely among the ..."

2. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of by David Livingstone (1858)
"Troops of leches, or, as they are here called, " lechwes," appeared feeding quite heedlessly all over the flats; they exist here in prodigious herds, ..."

3. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of by David Livingstone (1858)
"Troops of leches, or, as they are here called, " lechwes," appeared feeding quite heedlessly all over the flats; they exist here in prodigious herds, ..."

4. Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers by John Guille Millais (1919)
"A few days later, after hunting lechwes in a swamp, Selous himself became ill, and for a fortnight both the travellers experienced all the trials of ..."

5. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"... important migration track for large herds of white- eared kobs and marsh-loving Nile lechwes, seriously threatened by agricultural development. ..."

6. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the by David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone (1866)
"When told he might have it for a nice new kaross of young lechwes' skins, he smiled, and asked no more: a joke usually stopped the begging. ..."

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