bubal

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See also: búbal

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Noun

bubal (plural bubals)

  1. An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest (†Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus), which was formerly native to northern Africa.
    • 1908, Richard Lydekker, The Game Animals of Africa, page 95:
      The bubal hartebeest, which is the typical representative of the group with U-shaped horns, is the smallest of all the species, and a native of North Africa, where it is known from the interior of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, while it formerly extended into Egypt.

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