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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HARTEBEEST

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARTEBEEST

hartebeest  [ˈhɑːtɪˌbiːst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARTEBEEST

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Hartebeest is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HARTEBEEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hartebeest

Hartebeest

The hartebeest is an African species of grassland antelope, first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. Adults stand just over 1 m at the shoulder. Males weigh 125 to 218 kg, and females are slightly lighter. The coat colour varies between subspecies, from the sandy coat of the western hartebeest to the almost black coat of the Swayne's hartebeest. Both sexes have horns; these grow 45–70 cm long, with the shape varying greatly between subspecies. Hartebeest live between 11 and 20 years in the wild, and up to 19 in captivity. Hartebeest are social animals that form herds of 20 to 300 individuals. Generally calm in nature, hartebeest can be ferocious when provoked. Their diets consist mainly of grasses, with small amounts of Hyparrhenia grasses and legumes throughout the year. The time of mating varies seasonally, and depends on both the subspecies and the population. Hartebeest are sexually mature at one to two years of age. After a gestation period of eight months, one offspring is born. The hartebeest inhabits savannas, woodlands, and open plains. Each of the eight subspecies of the hartebeest has a different conservation status.

Definition of hartebeest in the English dictionary

The definition of hartebeest in the dictionary is either of two large African antelopes, Alcelaphus buselaphus or A. lichtensteini, having an elongated muzzle, lyre-shaped horns, and a fawn-coloured coat. Other definition of hartebeest is any similar and related animal, such as Damaliscus hunteri.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HARTEBEEST


artiste
ɑːˈtiːst
batiste
bæˈtiːst
beast
biːst
creased
kriːst
deceased
dɪˈsiːst
east
iːst
feast
fiːst
geest
ɡiːst
hartbeest
ˈhɑːtˌbiːst
increased
ɪnˈkriːst
least
liːst
Mideast
ˌmɪdˈiːst
northeast
ˌnɔːθˈiːst
piste
piːst
priest
priːst
southeast
ˌsaʊθˈiːst
triste
triːst
visagiste
ˌviːzɑːˈʒiːst
wildebeest
ˈwɪldɪˌbiːst
yeast
jiːst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARTEBEEST

harsh
harshen
harshly
harshness
harslet
hart
hart´s-tongue
hartal
hartbeest
Harte
Hartford
Harthacanute
Hartington
Hartlepool
Hartley
Hartnell
hartshorn
harum-scarum
harumph

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARTEBEEST

at the earliest
at the latest
best
biggest
breest
contest
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fest
for the best
forest
freest
greatest
guest
honest
interest
jest
latest
on request
queest
reest

Synonyms and antonyms of hartebeest in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hartebeest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARTEBEEST

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Translator English - Chinese

麋羚
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Translator English - Spanish

hartebeest
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hartebeest
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Translator English - Hindi

hartebeest
380 millions of speakers
ar

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hartebeest
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Translator English - Russian

бубал
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hartebeest
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Translator English - Bengali

hartebeest
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bubales
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Translator English - Malay

Hartebeest
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Translator English - German

Kuhantilopen
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Translator English - Japanese

ハーテビースト
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Translator English - Korean

hartebeest
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Translator English - Javanese

Hartebeest
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hartebeest
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Translator English - Tamil

hartebeest
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Translator English - Marathi

हर्टबेस्ट
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Translator English - Turkish

inek antilobu
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Translator English - Italian

hartebeest
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Translator English - Polish

hartebeest
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Translator English - Ukrainian

бубал
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Translator English - Romanian

hartebeest
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Translator English - Greek

hartebeest
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Translator English - Afrikaans

hartebees
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

hartebeest
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Hartebeest
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Trends of use of hartebeest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARTEBEEST»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARTEBEEST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hartebeest

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARTEBEEST»

Discover the use of hartebeest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hartebeest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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African Antelope Database 1998
Subfamily Alcelaphinae Common Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus (Pallas 1 766) RED LIST STATUS Lower Risk (conservation dependent) SUBSPECIES W: western hartebeest (A. b. major) L: lelwel hartebeest (A. b. lelwel) T: tora ...
Rod East, 1999
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Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World
This hartebeest ranges amid thorny savanna, usually in small groups. There is often a male and a number of females with their young. The males tend to be territorial, and there are quite a few fights that go on between the males, which can get ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001
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Mammals of Africa
Adults are occasionally killed by Cheetahs, although the only case confirmed in a longeterm study of Coke's Hartebeest was an instance of four Cheetah 6 6 hunting together (L. M. Gosling pers. obs); Cheetahs do, however, kill large numbers ...
Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, 2013
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Stories that Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San ...
The. Mantis. tries. to. save. the. hartebeest. Ditilkwain From his father and mother L. V. 17. 5257-5300 SEPTEMBER 1875 This is what our mothers did when the Mantis came to us. The Mantis came and mounted father's quiver. He stood on it.
J. David Lewis-Williams, 2000
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The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region
The name hartebeest is derived from the Dutch name futrtbeest given to the species by the early European settlers. The first record of the name in South African literature appears in Van Riebeeck's DqgkregisteT (1660) where he recorded that ...
J. D. Skinner, Christian T. Chimimba, 2005
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The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed ...
Alcelaphus buselaphus, hartebeest A. lichtensteinii, Lichtenstein's hartebeest Damaliscus lunatus, topi/tsessebe D. dorcas, blesbok/bontebok D. hunteri, Hunter's antelope/hirola Connochaetes taurinus, common, blue, and white- bearded ...
Richard Estes, 1991
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Claim to the Country: The Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm ...
The Mantis was the one who cheated the children, he turned himself into a hartebeest, he resembled a hartebeest which was dead, he feigning death lay in front of the children, when the children went seeking (for Tkui) for he wished that the ...
Pippa Skotnes, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek, Lucy Lloyd, 2007
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Specimens Of Bushman Folklore:
01. The. Mantis. Assumes. The. Form. Of. A. Hartebeest. The Mantis is one who cheated the children, by becoming ahartebeest, by resembling a deadhartebeest. He feigning death layinfrontofthe children, when the childrenwent to seek ...
W.H.I. Bleek And L.C. Lloyd, 2014
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East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, ...
Adult hartebeest are killed by lions, hyaenas, leopards and wild dogs, while cheetahs take immature animals and jackals sometimes kill small calves. Newly born calves crouch in response to danger. Gosling found old males particularly ...
Jonathan Kingdon, 1988
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Antelopes: North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
5.4 Probable former distribution of bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus b. buselaphus) in Tunisia (shaded). could be retained at Bou-Hedma for public awareness ( Smith et al. 1997). Djebil National Park has particularly good potential for an in situ ...
David P. Mallon, Steven Charles Kingswood, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARTEBEEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hartebeest is used in the context of the following news items.
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Are you hosting unwelcome guests in your trophy room? | The Daily …
With the red hartebeest, the horns had been carefully epoxied to the clean skull. If there were bugs inside the hartebeest horns, they weren't ... «Daily Republic, Jul 15»
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Meet Sudan, a northern white rhino bull and the last of his kind
In the 600 acres of larger enclosure, endangered Grevy's zebras silently graze next to endangered Jackson's hartebeest, serene behind the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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Ethiopia: the world's best tourist destination for 2015?
... for the world's largest population of the endemic Swayne's hartebeest and an unusually large population of crocodiles. For centuries this area ... «AOL Travel UK, Jul 15»
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Travel - a Journey Back in Time
Giraffes grace the plains, the grasses are in seed and tall, a Coke's hartebeest watches while herds of zebra enjoy the grazing in the cool of the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Yankari Game Reserve: Centre of attraction becomes distraction
... including the African bush elephant, olive baboon, patas monkey, Tantalus monkey, roan antelope, western hartebeest, lions, African buffalo, ... «Daily Trust, Jul 15»
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Nairobi - the Only City in the World That Boasts a Game Park
The park is home to diverse wildlife, from the African buffalo, impala, waterbuck, Burchell's zebra, hartebeest and ostrich to the nocturnal lion ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Escaping cruel irony in Ngamiland
Between 2003 and 2014, the report notes, Ngamiland lost 3,692 gemsbok, 3,128 tsessebe, 987 steenbok, 266 hartebeest, 126 waterbucks and ... «Mmegi Online, Jun 15»
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5 Travel Destinations In Oyo State
... western kob, roan antelope, western hartebeest, Grimm's duiker, oribi, crested porcupine, anubis baboon, patas monkey, tantalus monkey, ... «Nigerian Bulletin, Jun 15»
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Case for the R6bn hunting industry, inflator of SA game price bubble
The male met his end after almost four hours of stalking antelopes including impalas, kudus, red hartebeest, and wildebeest, also known as ... «BizNews, Jun 15»
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NAC Accused of Illegal Emergency Road
Shapumba's close corporation, Hartebeest Properties CC, has filed a case at the Windhoek High Court in which it is asking the court to order ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»

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