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Oryx   Listen
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Oryx  n.  (Zool.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (Oryx beisa), and the beatrix antelope (Oryx beatrix) of Arabia.





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"Oryx" Quotes from Famous Books



... now fairly naturalized in Texas and New Mexico, and the two-toed ostrich in South America; on the pampas of that continent travellers may meet with the gazelle, the springbok, the oryx, and the kangaroo. Elephants are domesticated and used for court occasions in Brazil, as they are in India. Tea and coffee are now largely cultivated in California, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. In exchange, the cinchona tree abounds more now in India than ...
— 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century • Henry Hartshorne


Words linked to "Oryx" :   genus Oryx, gemsbok, gemsbuck


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