TRAGELAPHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tragelaphus mean? 

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

1. African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAGELAPHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Strepsiceros; genus Tragelaphus; Strepsiceros; Tragelaphus

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Tragelaphus"):

bongo; Boocercus eurycerus; Tragelaphus eurycerus (large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns)

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

harnessed antelope (any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness)

nyala; Tragelaphus angasi (spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck)

mountain nyala; Tragelaphus buxtoni (shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia)

bushbuck; guib; Tragelaphus scriptus (antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns)

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

Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)