konzeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

konze

1. A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), similar to the hartebeest, but without a black patch on the face and with shorter and flatter horns.
   • 1881, Frederick Courteney Selous, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, page 308:

     About 3 P.M. I went out to look for game, and, coming across a herd of zebras and konze antelope, managed to kill two, one of each.

   • 1893, The Geographical Journal - Volume 1, page 111:

     Among these fertile uplands, where wooded ridge alternates with grassy hollow, the sable and the roan antelopes, the noble eland, the forest-loving kudu, and the konze love to wander, and are but rarely disturbed by the hunter.

   • 1975, John Guille Millais, Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., page 113:

     Hence they got up to the high country and shot a little game, including some konze (Liechtenstein's hartebeest), the first Selous had seen.