toran.
/ˈtɔːrə/ In full, tora hartebeest. A light brown hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus tora, found in parts of north-eastern Africa.
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1873 J. E. Gray in Nature 4 Sept. 364 The British Museum has just received a series of skins of a new Bubale from Abyssinia called Tora... I propose to call it Alcephalus tora.
1873 J. E. Gray in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 341 The male of the Tora..has a large, round, convex tuft..of darker hair in front of each eye.
1894 P. L. Sclater & M. R. O. Thomas Bk. Antelopes I. 16 The Tora or Tétel was confounded by von Heaglin and Sir Samuel Baker, its first discoverers, with the Bubal.
1912 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Animal Life Afr. vii. 102 The Tora Hartebeest..is found in Abyssinia and the Blue Nile Valley.
1970 J. P. Dorst & P. Dandelot Field Guide Larger Mammals Afr. 220 The Tora Hartebeest..is pale tawny.
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