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Wildebeesten

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of wildebeest form-of, plural, rare

    "The wildebeesten were scarce just there; appearing only by twos and threes; with now and then a solitary bull who, after pawing the grass and grunting distant defiance,[…]When first they started off he burst into song, no doubt a hymn to his own prowess—an epic upon the fate of wildebeesten he had slain in the past or a challenge to the one he hoped to get the range of that day.[…]As one ostrich to a farmer is worth a wilderness of wildebeesten, it was something to get sore over."

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From early Afrikaans wildebeesten, plural of wildebeest (modern wildebees, plural wildebeeste).

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