antílope

Definitions of antílope
  1. noun
    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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    adax
    large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa
    ñu
    large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
    topi
    a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal
    impala
    African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps
    gacela
    small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
    bongo
    large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
    saiga
    goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis
    orix
    large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns
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    bóvido
    hollow-horned ruminants
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