antelope
Noun
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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 ruminantssubtypes:- 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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