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bluebucks

bluebucks is the plural of bluebuck.

Meaning of bluebuck

Noun

bluebuck (plural bluebucks)

  1. An extinct mammal, †Hippotragus leucophaeus, the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times (circa 1800).
    • Almost all of these antelope communities have been reduced to scattered remnants by excessive hunting in the past and loss of habitat to agricultural development, but the bluebuck is the only antelope species which has been exterminated.1989, J. L. Anderson, R. D. Carr, A. J. Hall-Martin, S. C. J. Joubert, M. E. Keep, P. H. Lloyd, S. Vrahimis, “Chapter 10: South Africa”, in Rod East, editor, Antelopes: Southern and South-Central...
  2. The nilgai.

Questions about bluebucks

What is bluebucks the plural of?
Bluebucks is the plural of bluebuck.

Words near bluebucks in the dictionary

  1. bluebreast
  2. bluebreast darter
  3. bluebreasts
  4. bluebs
  5. bluebuck
  6. bluebucks
  7. bluebugging
  8. bluebunch
  9. bluebunches
  10. bluecap
  11. bluecaps

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