Prongbuck

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The springbok. dated
  2. 2
    fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns wordnet
  3. 3
    The pronghorn

    "Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains"

Synonyms

All synonyms
american antelopeantilocapra americanapronghornpronghornpronghorn antelope

Example

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"Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains"

Etymology

From prong + buck.

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