SABLE ANTELOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sable antelope mean? 

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

1. large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SABLE ANTELOPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hippotragus niger; sable antelope

Hypernyms ("sable antelope" 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 ("sable antelope" is a member of...):

genus Hippotragus; Hippotragus (sable antelopes)