English > antelope: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | 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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