(n.) An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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).
(2) Alkaline phosphatase values in the 4 cervid species were higher than in the pronghorn antelope.
(3) Differential white blood cell counts for the white-tailed deer were markedly different from those of the pronghorn and bison.
(4) These two pronghorns exhibited a 0.5% or higher A. ovis parasitemia within 48 days after exposure, and an anaplasmosis-positive serological response 91 days after exposure.
(5) In 17 pronghorn examined postmortem, hemorrhages and edema were the most common gross pathologic changes.
(6) ), 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).
(7) Exposure of pronghorns (Antilocapra americana) in western Nebraska in 1983 to selected livestock pathogens was examined by serology and attempted virus isolation.
(8) Chronic or intermittent diarrhea was observed in most individuals in two groups of hand-raised 1- to 8-mo-old pronghorns.
(9) In August and September 1984, another BT epizootic occurred in northeastern Wyoming resulting in 300 known pronghorn deaths.
(10) Nasal secretions, leukocytes and preputial or vaginal swabs from a group of 15 captive wild ruminants, comprising six pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), seven fallow deer (Dama dama) and two mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), and from 50 free-ranging pronghorns in southern Alberta, were examined for viral agents.
(11) Blood samples were collected from captive and free-ranging elk (Cervus canadensis), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), white-tailed deer, (Odocoileus virginianus), black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), moose (Alces alces), and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) for cultural evidence of Trypanosoma sp.
(12) Pancreatic ribonuclease from pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) was isolated and its amino acid sequence was determined from a tryptic digest of the performic acid-oxidized protein.
(13) Blood from the infected pronghorns produced disease in four splenectomized sheep.
(14) Gross and histologic lesions were observed in the large muscles of the hindlimbs of most affected pronghorns.
(15) Chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) agglutinated mouse and rabbit erythrocytes but not human, guinea pig, or pronghorn antelope erythrocytes.
(16) Bluetongue virus serotype 17 was isolated from pronghorn in both epizootics.
(17) The X chromosomes of the male pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is larger than the "original" type and carries a large segment of late-labelling chromatin.
(18) In a most parsimonius tree of pancreatic ribonucleases, pronghorn and giraffe were placed together and these two were placed with the bovids, leaving the deer as a taxon separate from the other ruminants.
(19) Free-ranging pronghorns were sampled only once, at the time of capture.
(20) Trophozoites and cysts of an amoeba resembling Entamoeba bovis were recovered from soft stools of captive pronghorn fawns (Antilocapra americana).
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).