Bongo Synonyms

bŏnggō, bông-
A small drum; played with the hands
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bongo-drum
Large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Tragelaphus eurycerus
  2. Boocercus eurycerus

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Bongo Sentence Examples

  • The large and brightly coloured bongo (Boocercus euryceros) of the equatorial forest-districts serves in some respects to connect the bushbucks with the elands, having horns in both sexes, and a tufted tail, but a brilliant orange coat with vertical white stripes.

  • The first group, or Tragelaphinae, is represented by the African elands (Taurotragus), bongo (Boocercus), kudus (Strepsiceros) and bushbucks or harnessed antelopes (Tragelaphus), and the Indian nilgai (Boselaphus).

  • Except in the bongo and elands, horns are present only in the males, and these are angulated and generally spirally twisted, and without rings.

  • More elusive is the bongo, a rare type of forest antelope.

  • There is, as yet, no evidence as to whether the females of the true bongo bear horns, though it is probable they do; but as the horns are present in both sexes of the East African form, Mr Oldfield Thomas has made that the type of the genus.'

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