blaubok

blaubok

(ˈblaʊˌbɒk)
n, pl -boks or -bok
(Animals) a large blue-haired antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus, of southern Africa: extinct since 1800. Also called: blue buck
[C18: via Afrikaans from Dutch blauwbok]
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Before the end of the eighteenth century the southern tip of Africa had even lost one mammalian species, the blaubok, an antelope, to extinction.