Antelope
WordNet
noun
(1) Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by having hollow horns. Unlike deer antelope do not shed their horns.
- The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
- 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80
- "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
- 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80
See also
- bontebok
- dik-dik
- eland
- gazelle
- hartebeest
- klipspringer
- kudu
- oryx
- roan
- royal antelope
- sable antelope
- springbok
- topi
- waterbuck
- wildebeest
- Appendix: Animals
- herd
- Appendix: Collective nouns