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HARTEBEEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hartebeest" 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)
Holonyms ("hartebeest" is a member of...):
Alcelaphus; genus Alcelaphus (African antelopes: hartebeests)