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bastard hartebeests

bastard hartebeests is the plural of bastard hartebeest.

Meaning of bastard hartebeest

Noun

bastard hartebeest (plural bastard hartebeests or bastard hartebeest)

  1. The sassaby.
    • We saw a small herd of sassadybies, or bastard hartebeesten, and in getting a long shot at one of them I passed so close to a leopard or panther, that I might have killed it, had I seen it before it escaped.1871 August 20, [Thomas] Baines, quotee, “Exploration. Exploration and Hunting in South Africa.”, in The Australasian, volume XII, number 323, Melbourne, Vic., published 8 June 1872, page 710, column...

Questions about bastard hartebeests

What is bastard hartebeests the plural of?
Bastard hartebeests is the plural of bastard hartebeest.

Words near bastard hartebeests in the dictionary

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  4. bastard halibuts
  5. bastard hartebeest
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  10. bastard ironwood
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