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A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: bovid, ungulate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bovid
Narrower terms: blackbuck, black buck, Antilope cervicapra, gerenuk, Litocranius walleri, addax, Addax nasomaculatus, gnu, wildebeest, dik-dik, hartebeest, sassaby, topi, Damaliscus lunatus, impala, Aepyceros melampus, gazelle, bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus, Boocercus eurycerus, kudu, koodoo, koudou, harnessed antelope, mountain nyala, Tragelaphus buxtoni, nilgai, nylghai, nylghau, blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, sable antelope, Hippotragus niger, saiga, Saiga tatarica, steenbok, steinbok, Raphicerus campestris, eland, waterbuck, puku, Adenota vardoni, oryx, pasang
History
From antelope.
From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.
Across languages
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