Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two large African antelopes (Connochaetes gnou or C. taurinus) having a drooping mane and beard, a long tufted tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An African animal of the genus Catoblepas (or Connochætes), belonging to the antilopine division of the family Bovidæ; a wildebeest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
antelope native toAfrica having curvedhorns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A gnu is not really like a dodo … But I think there’s something from dodos in gnus …
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I am trying to build a spreadsheet application to cli, called gnu-oleo.
LinuxQuestions.org Alexvader 2010
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I am trying to build a spreadsheet application to cli, called gnu-oleo.
LinuxQuestions.org Alexvader 2010
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(sometimes called gnu) which look something like the American buffalo or bison, and hartebeest, stood around in a ring, looking on.
Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Lester Pearson 1908
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Or use a different tool to create the tar - I just tried using Ant to create the tar file with longfile = "gnu", and the resulting tar file is readable with both Ant and Winzip.
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Black wilebeest are the most different of the various African wildebeest antelopes (aka "gnu"), different enough from the many subspecies to be counted as their own species.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Greg Laden none@example.com 2010
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Black wilebeest are the most different of the various African wildebeest antelopes (aka "gnu"), different enough from the many subspecies to be counted as their own species.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Greg Laden none@example.com 2010
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Or use a different tool to create the tar - I just tried using Ant to create the tar file with longfile = "gnu", and the resulting tar file is readable with both Ant and Winzip.
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"gnu," from a hollow moaning sound to which these creatures sometimes give utterance, and which is represented by the word "gnoo-o-oo."
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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"gnu," from a hollow moaning sound to which these creatures sometimes give utterance, and which is represented by the word "gnoo-o-oo."
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
immerbeta commented on the word gnu
GNU is a recursive word, meaning "GNU is Not Unix", coined by Richard Stallman 25 years ago in his initiation of the Free Software Movement
September 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word gnu
Young Ada had a gnu. Oy!
October 18, 2008
oroboros commented on the word gnu
Mastroianni & Heart's wordplay
August 14, 2014