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springbok (s) (noun), springboks (pl)
1. A gazelle, a brown and white mammal, which lives in the southern parts of Africa and is able to jump up quite far when startled: "The tourists enjoyed the sight of seeing the springboks jumping around during the very early hours of their trip."
2. Etymology: from Afrikaans: spring, "to leap up"; from Middle Dutch springen + bok, "buck, male deer".
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