Definition of Strepsiceros

1. Noun. African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Strepsiceros

Stravinsky
Stravinskyan
Straw
Streep
Streisand
Streisand effect
Strekelia
Strekelia formosissima
Strelitz
Strelitzes
Strelitzia
Strelitzia reginae
Strelitziaceae
Strepera
Strephon
Strepsiceros (current term)
Strepsirhini
Streptococcus anhemolyticus
Streptomyces erythreus
Streptomyces griseus
Streptomyces scabies
Streptomycetaceae
Streptopelia
Streptopelia risoria
Streptopelia turtur
Streptosolen
Streptosolen jamesonii
Strickland
Strigidae
Strigiformes

Literary usage of Strepsiceros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1885)
"Purchased, 1879. Genus Strepsiceros, Gray 4. Strepsiceros (? ... This specimen agrees with Oreas and Strepsiceros Comptes Rendus, vol. lii. p. 297 (1861). ..."

2. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"Strepsiceros. Horns over back edge of orbit, in males only, spirally twisted, ascending from ... Strepsiceros excelsus, Sundevall; Heuglin, Antil. p. 12. ..."

3. The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals, by William Jardine (1836)
"Antelope strepsiceros of Author*.—Striped Antelope, Pennant's Quad. ip 77.—The Koodoo, Daniel.—Damalis (Strepsiceros), Smith in ..."

4. Big Game Shooting on the Equator by Francis Arthur Dickinson (1908)
"GREATER KUDU Strepsiceros KUDU SWAHILI : MALO M'KUBWA. MASAI : MALO "^HE finest antelope in the world, bar none!" is how I first heard this species ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"Antilope Strepsiceros, Pallas.—Damalis (Strepsiceros) Strepsiceros, H. Smith, ... Strepsiceros Kudu, Gray, Cat. BM; Knowsley Menag. 26. t. 24. f. 2, young. ..."

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