i., zool. antilop

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Definition of i., zool. antilop in Turkish English dictionary

antelope

{n} a kind of goat with curled horns

{i} any of a number of cud-chewing deer-like animals having hollow horns (found mainly in Africa and Asia)

The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana

There are many species in Africa and Asia

Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by having hollow horns. Unlike deer antelope do not shed their horns

The horns are usually annulated, or ringed

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

Hyphenation

i., zo·ol. an·ti·lop