(n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Species whose embryos have been successfully preserved include mouse, rat, rabbit, sheep, goat, cattle, horse, antelope, baboon, and human.
(2) Dik-dik antelopes lost about 50% more heat evaporatively when exposed to the sun compared to the shade at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 28 degrees C or a Ta of 40 degrees C in a climatic chamber.
(3) The maintenance crude protein (CP) requirements of subadult nilgai antelope (Boselaphus tragocamelus) were determined by nitrogen balance.
(4) The course of experimental infection of a type SAT 1 FMDV strain was studied in buffalo, sable antelope and eland following tongue inoculation and contact and has been compared with that in cattle.
(5) The Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center Family Practice Program has initiated an innovative project which involves residents serving as team physicians for local college athletic teams.
(6) Proteinaceous extracts of deer and antelope antlers and bovine and rhinoceros horn were prepared by solubilizing 10 mg of horn sample in 200 microL of a solution containing 12M urea, 74mM Trizma base, and 78mM dithiothreitol (DTT).
(7) This report describes a study of goiter in a nondomesticated bovine species, bongo antelope (Tragelaphus eurycerus), an African bovid.
(8) The Antelope on Mitcham Road has a choice of three open fires where you can affix your undergarments.
(9) Twelve species of ixodid ticks were recovered; the antelope each harboured 9 species and the hares 11.
(10) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(11) Alkaline phosphatase values in the 4 cervid species were higher than in the pronghorn antelope.
(12) He suffered several injuries in the crash and was being treated at Antelope Valley hospital, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
(13) A trio of antelope species found in Africa are also now near threatened for the same reason.
(14) These DNA probes distinguish among deer, elk, and antelope, although not between different species of deer.
(15) Under controlled conditions, the rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) respiratory frequency, evaporative water loss, heat balance, rectal (Trec) and surface temperatures were determined in the dik-dik antelopes at ambient temperatures (Ta) ranging from 1 to 44 degrees C. 2.
(16) The parasite was recovered from the subdural space of one reindeer and was seen histologically within the neuropil of another reindeer and a sable antelope.
(17) Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that two male antelopes in last year’s Zootopia – which won the best animation Oscar at the 2017 awards – shared a double-barrelled surname, but their exact relationship was never made explicit.
(18) ), tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes), Roosevelt elk (C. e. roosevelti), pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana), Peninsular bighorn sheep (O. c. cremnobates) and desert bighorn sheep (O. c. nelsoni) and analyzed them for agar gel precipitating (AGP) antibodies to bluetongue (BT) virus (BTV).
(19) In addition, blood from 36 of the above antelope and from a further 48 buffalo was inoculated into rodents to test for the presence of trypanosomes.
(20) A 10-week-old, black buck antelope calf, from the Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville, Indiana was found dead without observed signs of illness.
Springbok
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Springbuck
Example Sentences:
(1) Positive reactions were recorded in the following game species: impala (Aepyceros melampus), lechwe (Kobus leche), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) and tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus).
(2) He added: "I hope the Springboks will have more black players.
(3) In my opinion the greatest enemy of the old apartheid system was not the ANC and the black masses but white liberals and traitors.” The Springbok Club still runs a blog, which just two weeks before Cox’s murder urged UK readers to vote to leave the EU in order to renew links with their “ethnic brothers and sisters” elsewhere in the world.
(4) And when I was 14, I demonstrated against the Springboks rugby tour [South Africa's whites-only team].
(5) Springbok and gemsbok were shot in both the Etosha National Park in the north and the Hardap Nature Reserve in the south of Namibia.
(6) Prior to kick-off Zimbabwe had been the only side the Cherry Blossoms had beaten in the tournament’s history, at the second World Cup in 1991, yet anyone expecting them to wilt in the face of a mighty Springbok side boasting 851 caps between them was in for a shock.
(7) In my youth I had taken part in protests against the visit of the Springbok rugby team and I was a long-time supporter of the anti-apartheid movement.
(8) Turning to murder The question remains as to why Mair turned to murder in June, 25 years after he first made contact with the Springbok Club and 17 years after he purchased a manual describing the assembly of a homemade pistol.
(9) He also subscribed to a rightwing magazine called SA Patriot, which was initially published in South Africa by the Springbok Club, but moved to the UK and became SA Patriot in Exile in 1991.
(10) The helminth species composition and helminth burdens of 4 grey duikers, 12 bushbuck, 2 nyala, 2 giraffe, a steenbok, an oribi, a waterbuck and a tsessebe from the Kruger National Park (KNP); of a steenbok and a greater kudu from the farm Riekerts Laager, Transvaal; of a single blue duiker from the Tsitsikama Forest National Park, and of a blue wildebeest, a red hartebeest, a gemsbok and 2 springbok from the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (KGNP) were collected, counted and identified.
(11) Without that element of the game we would not have the glory of players like Richie McCaw and David Pocock , we would not have a game where players of the size and shape of Eben Etzebeth, Richie Gray or Adam Jones could shine and nor would we have the joy of seeing the way a team determined to keep the ball alive like Japan can triumph against the superior size and strength of the Springboks.
(12) Back in Brighton, Springbok fans applauded the Japan team on to their bus as they travelled back to their Warwick base.
(13) The new president sets the team's captain (François Pienaar, played by Matt Damon) the improbable goal of winning the World Cup; the tournament is to be held in South Africa in a year, and the Springboks are given little chance.
(14) There are no easy games in this competition.” South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted.
(15) From July 1979-December 1980, 48 springbok were culled for a parasite survey at Benfontein.
(16) Staff charter a weekly flight from Cape Town to the Northern Cape village of Carnarvon , then drive for an hour into a wilderness where only sheep, springboks and hardy farmers venture.
(17) Among those who did is Springboks wing Bryan Habana, who went to a prestigious, formerly all-white school.
(18) Like other tourists and daytrippers from Jo'burg, I pay a more modest £3.50 to hug the lions at Moreson, a game ranch which on its website invites tourists to come and enjoy the canned hunting of everything from pretty blesbok and springbok – South Africa's national symbol – to lions and crocodiles.
(19) So loathed were the Springboks that those few blacks who showed up for matches rooted loudly for the other side.
(20) South Africans celebrate from townships to townhouses, white policemen hold a black boy aloft, and president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) blesses the triumphant captain of the Springboks rugby team (Matt Damon).