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WATERBUCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("waterbuck" is a kind of...):
antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterbuck"):
kob; Kobus kob (an orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa)
Kobus leche; lechwe (tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species)
Holonyms ("waterbuck" is a member of...):
genus Kobus; Kobus (African antelopes: waterbucks)
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