| 释义 |
‖ oribi, orebi|ˈɒrɪbɪ|
Also 9 orabie, ourebi, oribé.
[Cape Dutch, app. from Hottentot.]
A small species of South African antelope (Antilope scoparia or Scopophorus ourebi), inhabiting open plains.
1795Thunberg in Pinkerton's Voy. (1808) XVI. 95 A very small and extremely scarce goat called Orebi. 1801Sir J. Barrow Trav. S. Africa 138 Orabie. 1827Griffiths tr. Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. V. 339, A. scoparia, the Orebi, adult male, 22 to 24 inches high, four feet long, head eight inches. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. 11 By valleys remote where the oribi plays. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 76/2 The Ourebi,..called bleekbok or palebuck by the Dutch colonists at the Cape... The ourebi inhabits the open plains of South Africa. 1887Rider Haggard She vi. 80 A tanned hide of a small red buck, something like that of the oribé. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 74, I shot a fine oribi antelope. |