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GAZELLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gazelle" is a kind of...):
antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gazelle"):
Gazella thomsoni; Thomson's gazelle (East African gazelle; the smallest gazelle)
Gazella subgutturosa (a kind of gazelle)
Antidorcas euchore; Antidorcas marsupialis; springbok; springbuck (a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air)
Holonyms ("gazelle" is a member of...):
Gazella; genus Gazella (typical gazelles)
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