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giraffe

[juh-raf, -rahf] / dʒəˈræf, -ˈrɑf /


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On the lam in Texas: Gracie the giraffe.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

Holly sees an elephant, my husband sees a giraffe.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

The arrival of a new bull giraffe at a safari park could help save one of the world's rarest species of the mammal.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

As the animal grew from dog sized to horse sized to giraffe sized and eventually to enormous proportions, its place in the ecosystem shifted at each stage.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

A giraffe stretched his long neck out over the heads of the other animals and let a little boy in a sailor-suit tickle its nose.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

He then proceeded to pitch me an animated children’s show about singing giraffes.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Patterns resembling Voronoi diagrams can often be seen in nature, including the markings on giraffes.

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

In recent weeks, hundreds of giraffes, zebras, and antelopes have been removed from the Kedong Ranch, on the shores of tourist hotspot Lake Naivasha.

From Barron's Nov. 17, 2025

There are giraffes, elephants and dinosaurs, but none is animatronic.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

We passed birds, bears, apes, monkeys, ungulates, the terrarium house, the rhinos, the elephants, the giraffes.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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