graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
ship upon which Gulliver sailed in the voyage landing him in Lilliput; commanded by William Prichard; left Bristol May 4, 1699 bound for the South Sea, with Gulliver aboard as ship's surgeon (I: 1); struck a rock off Van Diemen's Land and sank, Nov 5, 1699 (I: 1;4)
An antelope is an animal like a deer, with long legs and horns, that lives in Africa or Asia. Antelopes are graceful and can run fast. There are many different types of antelope. an animal with long horns that can run very fast and is very graceful (antelop, from antholops). Any of numerous species of Old World grazing or browsing bovids that typically are swift, slender, and graceful plains dwellers. The North American pronghorn is also sometimes referred to as an antelope. Most antelope are African; the others, except for the pronghorn, are Eurasian. They range in shoulder height from 10 to 70 in. (25-175 cm). The male, and sometimes the female, bears distinctive, backwardly curved horns. See also bongo, dik-dik, duiker, eland, gazelle, gnu, hartebeest, impala, kudu, nyala, oryx, springbok, waterbuck
One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat
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[ 'an-t&l-"Op ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English, fabulous heraldic beast, probably from Middle French antelop savage animal with sawlike horns, from Medieval Latin anthalopus, from Late Greek antholop-, antholops.