gerenuk

plural gerenuks · alternative greenuk

1. A type of long-necked gazelle, Litocranius walleri, native to central and eastern Africa.

   Unaccountably, he finds himself thinking of gerenuks and gazelles.

   1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 139

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   She was beautiful, sloe black eyes and red ripe lips atop the long neck of a gerenuk, her pure brown skin set off by yards of carnelian and amber beads;

   2010, Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy, page 195

   Synonyms: giraffe gazelle, Waller's gazelle