English > antelope: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | 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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Narrower | addax, Addax nasomaculatus | large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa |
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blackbuck, black buck, Antilope cervicapra | Common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns |
bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus, Boocercus eurycerus | large forest / forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns |
dik-dik | Any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua |
eland | Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes |
gazelle | small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes |
gerenuk, Litocranius walleri | slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns |
gnu, wildebeest | large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail |
harnessed antelope | Any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness |
hartebeest | A large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward |
impala, Aepyceros melampus | African antelope with ridged curved horns |
kudu, koodoo, koudou | Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush |
mountain nyala, Tragelaphus buxtoni | shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia |
nilgai, nylghai, nylghau, blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus | large Indian antelope |
oryx, pasang | large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns |
puku, Adenota vardoni | An African antelope closely related to the waterbuck |
sable antelope, Hippotragus niger | large black East African antelope with sharp / sharp backward-curving horns |
saiga, Saiga tatarica | Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis |
sassaby, topi, Damaliscus lunatus | A large South African antelope |
steenbok, steinbok, Raphicerus campestris | small plains antelope of southeastern Africa |
waterbuck | Any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers |
Broader | bovid | hollow-horned ruminants |
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Spanish | antilope, antílope |
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Catalan | antílop |
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