Definitions for oribis

oribis or·i·bi

Spelling: [awr-uh-bee, or‐]
IPA: /ˈɔr ə bi, ˈɒr‐/

Oribis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in oribis (biiors).

Definitions for oribis

noun

  1. a small tan-colored antelope, Ourebia ourebi , of south and east Africa, with spikelike horns.

Origin of oribis

1785-95; Afrikaans Khoikhoi, perhaps to be identified with Nama !gore-b

Examples for oribis

There was lots of game for our table, from the most delicious grouse to the oribi, whose meat is the tenderest I have ever eaten.

oribi: About 120, in the divisions of Albany and Alexandria.

Then the oribi were visible everywhere, usually in groups of four or six.

Pale′-ale, a light-coloured pleasant bitter ale; Pale′buck, an antelope, the oribi.

From where I stood looking at them hartebeest, kob, waterbuck, and oribi were also all in sight.

For instance, there's the oribi and the dik-dik, to say nothing of the steinbuck and the klipspringer.

Word Value for oribis
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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