blue antelope
English
Noun
blue antelope
- (now historical) The extinct bluebuck, Hippotragus leucophaeus. [from 18th c.]
- 1777, Georg Forster, A Voyage Round the World, University of Hawai‘i Press 2000, p. 59:
- The blue antelope, (blauwe bock) is really of a blueish colour, but when killed soon loses the velvet-like appearance of its fur.
- 1777, Georg Forster, A Voyage Round the World, University of Hawai‘i Press 2000, p. 59: