Definition of Genus Alcelaphus

1. Noun. African antelopes: hartebeests.

Exact synonyms: Alcelaphus
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Hartebeest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alcelaphus

genus Ailuropoda
genus Ailurus
genus Aix
genus Ajaia
genus Ajuga
genus Alauda
genus Albatrellus
genus Albizia
genus Albizzia
genus Albuca
genus Albugo
genus Albula
genus Alca
genus Alcea
genus Alcedo
genus Alcelaphus (current term)
genus Alces
genus Aldrovanda
genus Alectis
genus Alectoria
genus Alectoris
genus Alectura
genus Alepisaurus
genus Aletris
genus Aleurites
genus Aleyrodes
genus Algeripithecus
genus Alisma
genus Allamanda
genus Alliaria

Literary usage of Genus Alcelaphus

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

1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Africa and Syria, the existing genus Alcelaphus represented ter Tertiaries of Algeria, and also in the Pliocene Siwaliks ; the species from the latter ..."

2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1889)
"But it has the frontal part of the sW slightly more elongated than in D. senegalensis, and in this resp^* shows a divergence towards the genus Alcelaphus. ..."

3. Denkschriften by Schweizerische naturforschende gesellschaft (1867)
"... sowie deren Form sie in nichts \on der Mehrzahl der Antilopen unterscheiden/) Das genus Alcelaphus Blainville, ..."

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