| 单词 | sitatunga antelope |
| 释义 | > as lemmassitatunga antelope More fully sitatunga antelope. A medium-sized antelope, Tragelaphus spekei, found in swamp and marshland habitats in central Africa, having a shaggy, water-repellent brown or grey coat, long splayed hooves that enable the animal to walk on marshy ground, and spiral horns in the male.Also called marshbuck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Tragelaphinae > genus Tragelaphus (tragelaph) > other types of bran-deer1774 kudu1777 bongo1861 sitatunga1881 1881 F. C. Selous Hunter's Wanderings Afr. x. 158 These men told me that in some thick beds of reeds near their town were some situtunga antelope. 1909 F. Finn Wild Beasts of World II. 56 The Sitatungas (Limnotragus), or Marshbucks, are a small African group of three species, closely allied to the Bushbucks. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 333/1 Clad in comfortable situtunga skins. 1955 P. A. Buxton Nat. Hist. Tsetse Flies vi. 144 On some uninhabited islands in Lake Victoria, Uganda, the sitatunga antelope (Limnotragus s. spekii) multiplies and with it G. palpalis. 2012 M. P. Weber Living in Afr. xxi. 106 The small herds of bongo, sitatunga, kob, and duiker, bunched up and fled in zigzag escape patterns. < as lemmas |
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