konze

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English

konze

Noun

konze

  1. A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), similar to the hartebeest, but without a black patch on the face and with shorter and flatter horns.
    • 1881, Frederick Courteney Selous, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, page 308:
      About 3 P.M. I went out to look for game, and, coming across a herd of zebras and konze antelope, managed to kill two, one of each.
    • 1893, The Geographical Journal - Volume 1, page 111:
      Among these fertile uplands, where wooded ridge alternates with grassy hollow, the sable and the roan antelopes, the noble eland, the forest-loving kudu, and the konze love to wander, and are but rarely disturbed by the hunter.
    • 1975, John Guille Millais, Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., page 113:
      Hence they got up to the high country and shot a little game, including some konze (Liechtenstein's hartebeest), the first Selous had seen.

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Italian

Noun

konze (invariable)

  1. Lichtenstein's hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lichtensteinii)
    Synonym: alcelafo di Lichtenstein