antelope

1. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward;
   Includes gazelles;
   Springboks;
   Impalas;
   Addax;
   Gerenuks;
   Blackbucks;
   Dik-diks (synset 102422442)
   is a type of: bovid - hollow-horned ruminants
   subtypes:

   • antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck - common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns
   • gerenuk, litocranius walleri - slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns
   • addax, addax nasomaculatus - large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa
   • gnu, wildebeest - large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
   • dik-dik - any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit
   • hartebeest - a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward
   • damaliscus lunatus, sassaby, topi - a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal
   • aepyceros melampus, impala - African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps
   • gazelle - small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
   • bongo, boocercus eurycerus, tragelaphus eurycerus - large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
   • koodoo, koudou, kudu - either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
   • harnessed antelope - any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness
   • mountain nyala, tragelaphus buxtoni - shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia
   • blue bull, boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghai, nylghau - large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns
   • hippotragus niger, sable antelope - large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns
   • saiga, saiga tatarica - goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis
   • raphicerus campestris, steenbok, steinbok - small plains antelope of southeastern Africa
   • eland - either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes
   • waterbuck - any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers
   • adenota vardoni, puku - an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck
   • oryx, pasang - large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns

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