Noun:

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wildebeest's Usage Examples:

He spies bat-eared foxes, porcupines, wildebeest, buffalo - oh, and a leopard tortoise.

drunken stupor by a herd of wildebeest falling down the stairs.

animal husbandry system backing up like a wildebeest's bowels on boiled eggs.

Bo.) White-tailed Gnu, or Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnu).

- White-tailed Gnu, or Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnu).

6), and the brindled gnu, or blue wildebeest (C. taurinus), which, with some local variation, has a large range in South and East Africa.

The last section of the true antelopes is the Bubalinae, represented by the hartebeest, Bubalis, blesbok and sassaby (Damaliscus), and the gnu or wildebeest (Connochaetes, also called Catoblepas), all being African with the exception of one or two hartebeests which range into Syria.

In the Vryheid district the kudu, blue wildebeest, waterbuck, reedbuck, impala, steinbok and klipspringer are also found.

A second and larger species is the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C. taurinus or Catoblepas gorgon), also known by the Bechuana name kokon or kokoon; and there are several East African forms more or less closely related to the latter which have received distinct names.

GNU, the Hottentot name for the large white-tailed South African antelope, now nearly extinct, know to the Boers as the black wildebeest, and to naturalists as Connochaetes (or Catoblepas) gnu.

Synonyms:

gnu, antelope, genus Connochaetes, Connochaetes,