WATERBUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waterbuck mean? 

• WATERBUCK (noun)
  The noun WATERBUCK has 1 sense:

1. any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers

  Familiarity information: WATERBUCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERBUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("waterbuck" is a kind of...):

antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterbuck"):

kob; Kobus kob (an orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa)

Kobus leche; lechwe (tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species)

Holonyms ("waterbuck" is a member of...):

genus Kobus; Kobus (African antelopes: waterbucks)