Crossword-Solution: PRONGHORN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pronghorn | n. | An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “PRONGHORN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Antelopelike deer | 1 answer |
| CABREE | 1 answer |
| CABRIT | 1 answer |
| fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | 1 answer |
| NORTH American prongbuck | 2 answers |
| Antelope relative | 2 answers |
| AMERICAN antelope | 2 answers |
| NORTH American antelope | 2 answers |
| NORTH American animal | 24 answers |
| AMERICAN animal | 33 answers |
| bontebok relative | 41 answers |
| ariel relative | 42 answers |
| ADDAX relative | 42 answers |
| BONGO relative | 47 answers |
| antelope | 51 answers |
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Sentences with PRONGHORN (5)
For the rest it was cunning against cunning, caution against skill, against quacking hordes of wild-fowl in the tulares, against pronghorn and bighorn and deer.
After the Rains, when the quick grass sprang up, vast herds of deer and pronghorn come down from the mountains; and when there were no rains the people ate lizards and roots.
Whenever Ted could be spared from the herd he and Stella and Hallie Croffut, and sometimes Ben or Kit, took long rides off the trail with their rifles, after a pronghorn or black-tail deer, and frequently they had venison for supper.
Thus, the antelope or pronghorn is not a true antelope, the buffalo is not a buffalo, the Rocky Mountain goat is not a goat, and the elk is not an elk.
Ten minutes after the two coyotes had killed the jack Breed opened his eyes for a view of a pronghorn buck that had taken his stand on a low ridge half a mile away.
Quotes with PRONGHORN (1)
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Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1984–2003).