antilope

Definitions of antilope
  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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    types:
    gnou
    large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
    gazelle
    small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
    type of:
    bovidés
    hollow-horned ruminants
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