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ANTELOPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("antelope" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antelope"):
oryx; pasang (large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns)
Adenota vardoni; puku (an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck)
waterbuck (any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers)
eland (either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes)
Raphicerus campestris; steenbok; steinbok (small plains antelope of southeastern Africa)
saiga; Saiga tatarica (goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis)
Hippotragus niger; sable antelope (large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns)
blue bull; Boselaphus tragocamelus; nilgai; nylghai; nylghau (large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns)
mountain nyala; Tragelaphus buxtoni (shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia)
harnessed antelope (any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness)
koodoo; koudou; kudu (either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush)
bongo; Boocercus eurycerus; Tragelaphus eurycerus (large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns)
gazelle (small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes)
Aepyceros melampus; impala (African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps)
Damaliscus lunatus; sassaby; topi (a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal)
hartebeest (a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward)
dik-dik (any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit)
gnu; wildebeest (large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail)
addax; Addax nasomaculatus (large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa)
gerenuk; Litocranius walleri (slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns)
Antilope cervicapra; black buck; blackbuck (common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns)
