WILDEBEEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wildebeest mean? 

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

1. large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILDEBEEST (noun)

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 ("wildebeest" 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 ("wildebeest" is a member of...):

Connochaetes; genus Connochaetes (African antelopes: gnus)

 Context examples 

"We lost 98 percent of the wildebeest population, 75 percent of the zebra population and 30 percent of the elephant population," said Susan Alberts, a biologist at Duke University.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)