nilgai

IPA: nˈɪɫgˈaɪ

noun

  • A large antelope, of the genus Boselaphus, from northern India; the blue bull.
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Examples of "nilgai" in Sentences

  • The Indian guide agreed, and they were successful in bagging a large nilgai on the first day.
  • Numerous smaller game came to sniff the dead nilgai, but the waiting hunters shooed them away.
  • This area is also the southern distributional limit of the nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) in the Indian Peninsula.
  • Broken Arrow Ranch is allowed to send their sharpshooters onto the land and hunt wild deer, nilgai antelope, and boar.
  • Four large herbivores, the Asian elephant, greater one-horned rhinoceros, gaur (seasonal occupant), and nilgai or blue bull (in drier grasslands) also co-exist.
  • We hunt whitetail in the South Texas brush country, but I also want something that is versatile enough for feral hog, nilgai antelope and possibly, one day, elk.
  • With buildings and an unabated tourist and pilgrim flow, the tree cover has reduced considerably and impacted the numbers of chital, sambar, nilgai, hare and wild boar.
  • Instead, the two Americans suggested they kill a nilgai—a wild, grass-eating animal similar to an antelope, only much larger, sometimes reaching 1,500 pounds—and use that as bait.
  • A number of people refused to hunt with me when I showed up with that gun, bit it took game as diversified as caribou, nilgai, whitetails, mule deer, and I believe, a serpent or two.
  • I've also walked off a quail hunt in Texas, and off a whitetail drive on a cottonwood island in Montana, and off a nilgai hunt in Texas after the hunter behind me sent a rifle bullet past my head.

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