Word.ws English Dictionary

bubals

bubals is the plural of bubal.

Meaning of bubal

Noun

bubal (plural bubals)

  1. An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest (†Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus), which was formerly native to northern Africa.
    • The bubal hartebeest, which is the typical representative of the group with U-shaped horns, is the smallest of all the species, and a native of North Africa, where it is known from the interior of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, while it formerly extended into Egypt.1908, Richard Lydekker, The Game Animals of Africa, page 95

Questions about bubals

What is bubals the plural of?
Bubals is the plural of bubal.

Words near bubals in the dictionary

  1. bubahs
  2. bubal
  3. bubale
  4. bubales
  5. bubaline
  6. bubals
  7. Bubaque
  8. Bubar
  9. Bubars
  10. bubas
  11. Bubastis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bubals (page history and authors); bubal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bubals.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bubals. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.