[S. African Du., f. wild WILD a. + beest BEAST sb.] The gnu.

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1838.  W. C. Harris, Narr. Exped. S. Africa, 380. Catoblepas Gnoo. The Gnoo. Wilde Beest of the Cape Colonists.

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1850.  R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr., iv. 84. Having inspected the wildebeest bull, which was a noble specimen.

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1889.  Rider Haggard, Allan’s Wife, iii. Here to the right might be a herd of vilderbeeste that could not number less than two thousand.

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1895.  J. G. Millais, Breath from Veldt, x. 218. The white-tailed gnu or black wildebeest.

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