Lexic.us

Definition of Antelope

1. Noun. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks.

Definition of Antelope

1. 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.

Definition of Antelope

1. Noun. Any of several African mammals of the family ''Bovidae'' distinguished by having hollow horns. Unlike deer antelope do not shed their horns. ¹

2. Noun. (American English) The pronghorn, ''Antilocapra americana''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antelope

1. a ruminant mammal [n -S]

Medical Definition of Antelope

1. 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. "The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell." (Spenser) The common or bezoar antelope of India is Antilope bezoartica. The chamois of the Alps, the gazelle, the addax, and the eland are other species. See Gazelle. The pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra Americana) is found in the Rocky Mountains. See Pronghorn. Origin: OF. Antelop, F. Antilope, fro Gr, Eustathius, "Hexaem," p. 36, the origin of which is unknown. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antelope

Literary usage of Antelope

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

1. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"One female saltatrix antelope, one male wart hog. 6th. One male and one female zebra. 1861. Feb. 21. Kaze—One male blanc boc. Ang. 25. ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"THE PRONG-HORN antelope. BY \VJ HAYS. IN a recent number of the NATURALIST is a letter from Dr. Coues on the animals of our Western plains. ..."

3. The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants: Being a Description of by Richard Irving Dodge (1876)
"(antelope furcifer.) THIS is peculiarly a plains animal, loving the high, ... There is scarcely a desert so barren and arid that the antelope cannot find ..."

4. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"Here is a reliable report (June 29, 1912) regarding the prong-horned antelope in Lower California, from EW Nelson: "antelope formerly ranged over nearly the ..."

5. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"The male antelope has the cavity between the pastern joints ; the two ... Both the corine and the above antelope have exactly the same turns of colon as the ..."

6. Tusayan Migration Traditions by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1900)
"The reptiles used in the dance are collected on four successive days; the antelope and Snake raros, as well as several other episodes of the ..."

7. Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States, and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1864)
"Prong-horned antelope; Sab. App. p. 667. " Our adventurous countrymen, who led the first ... The Prong-horn antelope is an animal of wonderful fleet- ness, ..."

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