Crossword-Solution: GEMSBOK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gemsbok | n. | A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “GEMSBOK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | 1 answer |
| Tufted tain antelope | 1 answer |
| KALAHARI national park | 1 answer |
| A large African antelope with distinctive black-and-white head markings and long straight horns | 1 answer |
| Tufted-tail antelope | 2 answers |
| EUROPEAN mountain antelope | 3 answers |
| oryx | 3 answers |
| EUROPEAN antelope | 3 answers |
| Large antelope | 8 answers |
| chamois | 10 answers |
| antelope South African | 11 answers |
| large African antelope | 12 answers |
| A LARGE, ANTELOPE | 12 answers |
| EUROPEAN animal | 13 answers |
| South African antelope | 21 answers |
| antelope African animals | 22 answers |
| African animals antelope | 22 answers |
| bontebok relative | 41 answers |
| ADDAX relative | 42 answers |
| ariel relative | 42 answers |
| BONGO relative | 47 answers |
| antelope | 51 answers |
| African antelope | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GEMSBOK (5)
Bleek, but he observes that it "gives an account of the reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, hartebeest, eland, quagga and springbok".(1) Speculative Bushmen seem to have been puzzled to account for the wildness of the eland.
For that reason hunters of gemsbok particularly avoided eating the flesh of the swift and agile springbok; indeed they would not even touch it with their hands, because they believed the springbok to be a very lively creature which did not go to sleep at night, and they thought that if they ate springbok, the gemsbok which they hunted would likewise not be willing to go to sleep, even at night.
Like the gemsbok, the eland is independent of water, and frequents the borders of the great Kalahari desert in herds varying from ten to a hundred.
They were of a beautiful deep cream colour, their legs black below the knee, and they had short black manes, black switched tails very similar to that of the gemsbok, and, in the case of four of the animals then in view, were provided with a single straight black pointed horn projecting from the very centre of the forehead, just above the level of the eyes.
Little Truey ran into the inner room and brought out an immense volume bound in gemsbok skin, with a couple of strong brass clasps upon it to keep it closed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2005).