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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

  • dorcas: Some, such as dorcas gazelle and Somali wild ass can only be seen in the UK at Marwell.
  • hunting: Food was mainly obtained by hunting gazelle, supplemented on a very small scale with ( probably ), wild grain.
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!

—Moore,Thomas

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