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Webster 1913 Edition

Steinbock

Stein′bockˊ

,

Noun.

[G.

stein

stone +

bock

buck, D.

bok

. Cf.

.]

(Zool.)

(a)

The European ibex.

(b)

A small South African antelope (

Nanotragus tragulus

) which frequents dry, rocky districts; – called also

steenbok

.

[Written also

steinboc

, and

steinbok

; also called

stonebock

, and

stonebuck

.]