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antelope (enc)

Antelope

Noun1.antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
bovid - hollow-horned ruminants
Antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck - common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns
gerenuk, Litocranius walleri - slender east African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns
addax, Addax nasomaculatus - large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa
gnu, wildebeest - large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
dik-dik - any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit
hartebeest - a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward
Damaliscus lunatus, sassaby, topi - a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal
Aepyceros melampus, impala - African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps
gazelle - small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus, bongo - large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
koodoo, koudou, kudu - either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
harnessed antelope - any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness
mountain nyala, Tragelaphus buxtoni - shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia
blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghai, nylghau - large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns
Hippotragus niger, sable antelope - large black east African antelope with sharp back-curving horns
saiga, Saiga tatarica - goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis
Raphicerus campestris, steenbok, steinbok - small plains antelope of southeastern Africa
eland - either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes
waterbuck - any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers
Adenota vardoni, puku - an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck
oryx, pasang - large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns

 

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