antelope
English Thesaurus
1. graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | bovid, |
| definition | : | hollow-horned ruminants (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gerenuk, litocranius walleri, |
| definition | : | slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | addax, addax nasomaculatus, |
| definition | : | large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gnu, wildebeest, |
| definition | : | large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dik-dik, |
| definition | : | any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hartebeest, |
| definition | : | a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aepyceros melampus, impala, |
| definition | : | African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gazelle, |
| definition | : | small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | koodoo, koudou, kudu, |
| definition | : | either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | harnessed antelope, |
| definition | : | any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | saiga, saiga tatarica, |
| definition | : | goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | eland, |
| definition | : | either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | waterbuck, |
| definition | : | any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | adenota vardoni, puku, |
| definition | : | an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | oryx, pasang, |
| definition | : | large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns (noun.animal) |
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