antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diksbovid - hollow-horned ruminants 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 gazelle - small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes 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 saiga, Saiga tatarica - goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis 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 oryx, pasang - large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns |