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See also: Antelope
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)
- Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
- (US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
- Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.
- 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80:
- "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
- (archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
Derived terms
[edit]- antelabbit
- antelope brush
- antelope bush
- Antelope County
- antelopelike
- Antelope Mesa
- antelope squirrel
- blue antelope
- bush antelope
- goat antelope
- goat-antelope
- harnessed antelope
- jackalope
- mountain antelope
- roan antelope
- royal antelope
- sable antelope
- saiga antelope
- screwhorn antelope
- Speke's antelope
- springer antelope
- Tibetan antelope
- white antelope
- zebra antelope
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]mammal of the family Bovidae
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pronghorn — see pronghorn
See also
[edit]See also
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]antelope (plural antelopes)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “antelō̆pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
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