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| addax |
a large pale or whitish North African antelope that has long spiraling horns. |
| blackbuck |
a long-horned antelope native to India that has a brownish-black back and a white belly. |
| bongo1 |
an African antelope that is reddish brown with white stripes and has spiral-shaped horns. |
| chamois |
an antelope native to high mountain regions of Europe. [1/5 definitions] |
| gemsbok |
a large antelope of southern Africa that has long straight horns and a tufted tail. |
| gnu |
a large African antelope with an oxlike head, horns curving downward and outward, a beard and short mane, and a long tail. |
| impala |
a reddish brown African antelope known for its ability to leap and for the long, ridged, curved horns of the male. |
| klipspringer |
a small African mountain antelope. |
| kudu |
a large African antelope with narrow white stripes across the back and, in the male, long curved horns. |
| nilgai |
a large Indian antelope, the male of which is bluish gray with short horns and a black mane, and the female tawny with no horns. |
| nyala |
an East African antelope with spiral horns and with white stripes on the sides of its grayish coat. |
| oribi |
a small tan African antelope with straight short horns and a tuft of hair growing from each knee. |
| pronghorn |
a small, fleet deer of the western plains of North America that resembles an antelope and has small, forked horns curved rearward at the tips. |
| rhebok |
a rare, brownish gray antelope that lives on the rocky hillsides of South Africa. |
| Rocky Mountain goat |
a goatlike antelope, found esp. in the mountains of northwestern North America, that has short, black, backward-curving horns and a shaggy white coat. |
| sable antelope |
a large African antelope with long, ringed, backward-curving horns and a dark coat. |
| sassaby |
a large African antelope with a black back and face and curved horns. |
| steenbok |
a small antelope found in grassy areas of eastern and southern Africa. |
| wildebeest |
a large African antelope with an oxlike head, horns curving downward and outward, a beard and short mane, and a long tail; gnu. |
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