ANTELOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antelope mean? 

• ANTELOPE (noun)
  The noun ANTELOPE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ANTELOPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTELOPE (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:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("antelope" is a kind of...):

bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antelope"):

koodoo; koudou; kudu (either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush)

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)

Antilope cervicapra; black buck; blackbuck (common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns)

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)

 Context examples 

I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Causes of cheetah decline have been mostly habitat loss, killings of cheetahs by humans, human hunting of cheetah's resources such as antelope, illegal fur trade, illegal cub trafficking, and roadkill.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

One jump, and you're out, and we'll run for it like antelopes.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In addition to the fox, the team also discovered extinct species of a wooly rhino (Coelodonta thibetana), three-toed horse (Hipparion), Tibetan bharal (Pseudois, known as blue sheep), chiru (Pantholops, known as Tibetan antelope), snow leopard (Uncia), badger (Meles), and 23 other mammals.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)