gazelle
gazelle
Definition
ga·zelle (gə zel′)
noun pl. -·zelles′ or -·zelle′
any of various small, swift, graceful antelopes (esp. genera Gazella and Procapra) of Africa, the Near East, and Asia with spirally twisted, backward-pointing horns and large, lustrous eyes
Etymology: Fr < Ar ghazāl
gazelle
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hunt: Me, [ Aslan ] and [ Dandelion ] will hunt not gazelles, but the [ inaudible ] .
- devour: I n order to survive, the West African Hoofer Frog must devour twelve gazelles a day.
- catch: Like a gazelle caught in a trap, their mouths bit the dust.
- kill: They appear to be well designed to kill gazelles.
- eat: Clean and unclean people may eat them together as if they were eating a gazelle or a deer.
- like: How like a gazelle you were, a girlish blue that was cold as snow is.
Adjective modifier
- Mongolian: We also have a long-standing interest in the ecology and conservation of Mongolian gazelles.
- red-fronted: Red-fronted gazelle Gazella rufifrons ( V ) is the only gazelle found in the park, on its northeastern edge.
- young: She often thinks back nostalgically to carefree days, leaping through the Suffolk grasslands like a young gazelle.
- mangy: The bloated mangy sky-blue gazelle sadly turned its nose up at the fresh new pork chop.
Modifies a noun
- skin: He found an ancient map made on gazelle skin.
- hound: Then they were accomplished hunters, able to bring down anything from hare to gazelle ( hence gazelle hound ).
- foot: Please change my hands into gazelle hands, change my feet into gazelle feet, so I can evade my demons.
- exercise: It believe me. continued, Kayla to gazelle exercise machine elliptical her any English.
- machine: It believe me. continued, Kayla to gazelle exercise machine elliptical her any English.
- hand: Please change my hands into gazelle hands, change my feet into gazelle feet, so I can evade my demons.
Noun used with modifier
gazelle Quotes
Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die!
