A large, pale-colored African antelope with long straight horns, adapted to desert and arid environments.
From Afrikaans 'gemsbok,' derived from Dutch 'gemsbuck' (a compound of 'gems' and 'bock' meaning 'buck'). The word entered English from South African settlers' languages in the 18th-19th centuries.
Gemsboks can find water sources that humans can't by navigating through invisible moisture gradients in the Kalahari Desert, and they can go weeks without drinking—survival superpowers that make them the desert's most elegant survivors.
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