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单词 sassaby
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sassabyn.

/səˈseɪbi/
Forms: Also 1800s sas(s)ayby, sassaybe, sassaybi, sassabye, tsessebe, tsessabi.
Etymology: < Setswana tsessébe, tsessábi.
A large antelope ( Alcelaphus lunata), a native of South Africa, sometimes called the Bastard Hartebeest.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Alcelaphinae > genus Damaliscus > Damaliscus lunatus (korrigum)
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1820 S. Daniell Sketches S. Afr. 18 The Sasayby is an Antelope, heretofore not described, found in the Booshwana country.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 90/2 They consider it as a kindred species with the Hartebeest of the colonists... The Booshwanas call it Sassaby.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xxxii. 342 Presently I came across two sassaybys, one of which I knocked over.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. vii. 135 The tsessebe.
a1875 J. T. Baines Gold Regions S.E. Afr. (1877) 66 Gee shot a Sassaybe, or bastard hartebeest.
1897 H. H. Johnston Brit. Central Afr. 326 The tsessebe or sassaby of S. Africa.
1907 W. C. Scully By Veldt & Kopje 201 Opportunity to lay low koodoo, sable and tsessabi.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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