GERENUK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gerenuk mean? 

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

1. slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERENUK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gerenuk; Litocranius walleri

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

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

Holonyms ("gerenuk" is a member of...):

genus Litocranius; Litocranius (antelopes of eastern Africa: gerenuks)