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ANTELOPES | |
| addax | a large light-coloured antelope with curled horns. [L. from an African word quoted by Pliny]. |
| antelope | any one of a group of hollow-horned, hoofed, ruminant mammals closely related to goats. |
| antilopine | of or related to antelopes. |
| ariel | a kind of mountain gazelle native to Arabia. |
| blackbuck | an Indian antelope. |
| blaubok bluebuck bloubok | a small South African antelope, or a larger South African antelope now extinct. |
| blesbok blesbuck | a South African antelope, having a large white spot on the forehead. |
| bok | in South Africa, a goat or antelope. |
| bongo | a central African antelope. Pl. BONGOS or BONGOES. |
| bontebok | a South African antelope. |
| boschbok boshbok bosbok | a small S. African antelope. |
| bubal bubale bubalis | a member of the Bubalis genus of antelopes, that includes the HARTEBEEST. The plural of BUBAL is BUBALISES. |
| bubaline | pertaining to the BUBAL. |
| cabrie cabrit | a PRONGHORN antelope. [Sp. cabrito, kid]. |
| chamois | a goatlike antelope found in the Alps. Pl. CHAMOIX. See also SHAMOIS. CHAMOIS (but not SHAMOIS) can also be used as a verb: to prepare leather like chamois: CHAMOISES, CHAMOISED, CHAMOISING. |
| chikara chinkara | a four-horned Indian antelope. |
| chiru+ | a Tibetan antelope, the source of SHAHTOOSH wool. |
| dikdik | a small E. African antelope. |
| duiker duyker duikerbok+ | a small S. African antelope. |
| dzeren | a kind of Central Asian antelope. |
| eland | a large African antelope with spiral horns. |
| gazelle | one of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope. |
| gemsbok gemsbuck | a South African antelope, having long, sharp, nearly straight horns. |
| gerenuk | a long-legged antelope of E. Africa. |
| gnu | a large African antelope. |
| goa | a Tibetan gazelle. |
| gooral goral | an Indian goat antelope resembling the chamois. [Local (Himalayan) name]. |
| grysbok | a small South African antelope, speckled with gray and chestnut. [Dutch 'grey buck']. |
| hartbees hartebeest hartbeest+ | a large S. African antelope. |
| impala | an African antelope with horns curved in the shape of a lyre. |
| inyala nyala | a South African antelope. |
| kaama | a large S. African antelope, the HARTEBEEST. |
| klipspringer | a small, hoofed African antelope. |
| kob | one of various species of African WATERBUCK. |
| kongoni+ | a S. African hartebeest. |
| koodoo kudu | an African antelope with long spiral horns. |
| lechwe | a kind of African antelope, aka marsh antelope. |
| madoqua | a small Ethiopian antelope, about the size of a hare. |
| marshbuck+ | a Central African antelope. |
| mhorr mohr | a West African gazelle. |
| nagor | a REEDBUCK of savannah in equatorial Africa, with short forward-curving horns. |
| nilgai nilgau nilghai nilghau nylghai nylghau | a large Indian antelope. [Hindi 'blue cow']. |
| oribi ourebi | a small South African antelope. |
| oryx | an African antelope. |
| palebuck | another name for the ORIBI. |
| pallah | a large South African antelope with lyrated horns. |
| prongbuck | another name for the SPRINGBOK. |
| pronghorn | a N. American ruminant, the sole member of the family Antilocapridae, resembling an antelope but having deciduous hooked horns in the male. |
| puku | an antelope of central southern Africa, related to the waterbuck and distinguished by its shaggy golden-yellow coat. [Zulu mpuku]. |
| pygarg | chiefly in biblical translations: possibly the ADDAX, though in more recent versions thought to be a deer or ibex. [L. pygargus f. Gk pugargos white-rump]. |
| reebok rhebok | a S. African antelope. |
| reedbuck reitbok | a kind of African antelope. |
| saiga | an antelope native to the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. |
| sasin | the common Indian antelope. |
| sassaby tsessebe | a kind of African antelope. |
| serow | a Himalayan goat-like antelope, aka THAR. [Lepcha (Tibeto-Burmese) so-ro]. |
| shamois | a goatlike antelope found in the Alps. Pl. SHAMOIS. See also CHAMOIS. |
| sitatunga situtunga | a species of African antelope. |
| springbok springbuck | a S African antelope, that moves in leaps when alarmed. |
| steenbok steinbok steinbock stembok stembuck steenbuck+ | a small S. African antelope. |
| thar | a Himalayan goat-like antelope, aka SEROW. Not to be confused with the TAHR or TEHR, which is a Himalayan wild goat. |
| topi | a large African antelope; also, a knd of pith helmet. |
| tragelaph | a kind of African antelope > TRAGELAPHINE; also, a fabulous beast part goat and part stag. |
| waterbuck | any of several kinds of African antelope. |