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