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noun
A medium-sized, deerlike South African antelope, Pelea capreolus, having pale-gray, curly fur and straight horns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Earlier rabock, reebok, rhebuck, rheeboc, raybuck, rehboc, borrowed from Afrikaans reebok (“rhebok”), ribbok (“rhebok”), from Dutch reebok (“roebuck”), compound of ree + bok, from Middle Dutch reeboc. Unetymological h present since 1775 though the spelling and pronunciation has varied greatly over the years. Doublet of roebuck.
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