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Dictionary entry overview: What does gnu mean?
• GNU (noun)
The noun GNU has 1 sense:
1. large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
Familiarity information: GNU used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gnu; wildebeest
Hypernyms ("gnu" 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 ("gnu" is a member of...):
Connochaetes; genus Connochaetes (African antelopes: gnus)
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