ORYX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oryx mean? 

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

1. large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORYX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

oryx; pasang

Hypernyms ("oryx" 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)

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

gemsbok; gemsbuck; Oryx gazella (large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks)

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

genus Oryx (African antelopes: oryxes)