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Definition of Adenota
1. Noun. African antelopes: puku.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Adenota Vardoni, Puku
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adenota
Literary usage of Adenota
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"Adenota. Muffle cervine, cordate, moderate. Nose hairy between and over the nostrils.
... (Heuglin, Antilop. p. 12.)—Hub. South Kordofan. b. Adenota winl. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological by Zoological Society of London Committee of Science and Correspondence, Committee of Science and Correspondence, Zoological Society of London (1850)
"Adenota KOB. The Pale brown ; end of nose, inside of ears, chest, belly, inside
of legs and thighs, tip of tail, and band above hoofs white ; front of fore ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"Adenota. Muffle cordate, moderate, cervine; nose hairy between the back of the
... adenota, H. Smith, GAK iv. 224. t. l"84. and t. 183. f. 3, 4. horns? ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1850)
"A. adenota, H. Smith, GAK iv. 224. t. 184. and t. 183. f. 3, 4. horns? A. Kob,
Ogilby, PZS 1836.—A. annulipes, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843. ..."
5. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"Adenota thomasi Neumann, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 192. RANGE.—Upper Nile
watershed from the headwaters of the 'Nzoia River on the flanks of the Uasin ..."
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