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antelope

DEFINITIONS OF: antelope

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n graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks

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Antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck
common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns
Litocranius walleri, gerenuk
slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns
Addax nasomaculatus, addax
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
Tragelaphus buxtoni, mountain nyala
shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia
Boselaphus tragocamelus, blue bull, 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 backward-curving horns
Saiga tatarica, saiga
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
Gazella thomsoni, Thomson's gazelle
East African gazelle; the smallest gazelle
Gazella subgutturosa
a kind of gazelle
Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok, springbuck
a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air
Tragelaphus strepsiceros, greater kudu
a variety of kudu
Tragelaphus imberbis, lesser kudu
a smaller variety of kudu
Tragelaphus angasi, nyala
spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck
Tragelaphus scriptus, bushbuck, guib
antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns
Taurotragus oryx, common eland
dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa
Taurotragus derbianus, giant eland
large dark striped eland of western equatorial Africa
Kobus kob, kob
an orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa
Kobus leche, lechwe
tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species
Oryx gazella, gemsbok, gemsbuck
large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks
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hollow-horned ruminants
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