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Gnu   /nu/   Listen
Gnu

noun
(Written also gnoo)
1.
Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail.  Synonym: wildebeest.



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"Gnu" Quotes from Famous Books



... hoofs well adapted for digging, and there is little difficulty in comprehending their mode of subsistence. Some animals, on the other hand, are never seen but in the vicinity of water. The presence of the rhinoceros, of the buffalo and gnu ('Catoblepas gnu'), of the giraffe, the zebra, and pallah ('Antilope melampus'), is always a certain indication of water being within a distance of seven or eight miles; but one may see hundreds of elands ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone



Words linked to "Gnu" :   antelope, genus Connochaetes, Connochaetes



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