prongbuck

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noun

The springbok.

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pronghornpronghorn antelopeAmerican antelopeAntilocapra americana
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Meanings

nounprongbuck (plural prongbucks)

plural prongbucks

  1. datedThe springbok.
  2. The pronghorn

    Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains

    1905, Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

Synonyms & antonyms

nounfleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns

Similar
pronghornpronghorn antelopeAmerican antelopeAntilocapra americana
Broader
ruminant
Also see
pronghorn

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From prong + buck.

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APA

prongbuck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prongbuck

MLA

“prongbuck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prongbuck. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prongbuck,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prongbuck.

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