Definition of antelopes Antelopes
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Wiktionary 
- antelopes (Noun)
Plural of antelope.
Part of speech
🔤- antelopes, noun, plural of antelope.
WordNet
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| antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks | ||
| bovid hollow-horned ruminants | ||
| 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 | ||
| boocercus eurycerus, tragelaphus eurycerus, bongo 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 | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- antelope (n.)
One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
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antelope
Any of several ruminants of the family Bovidae, chiefly of Africa and Asia, having permanent, hollow, unbranched horns.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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antelope
an′te-lōp, n. a quadruped belonging to the hollow-horned section of the order of Ruminants, differing from the goat in its beardless chin—a gregarious, peaceable animal, remarkable for grace, agility, and swiftness. [O. Fr. antelop—L. antalopus—Gr. antholops, of which the origin is uncertain, perhaps from Gr. anthein, to blossom, shine, and ōps, eye, and thus equivalent to 'bright-eyes.']
