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HIPPOTRAGUS NIGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns
Synonyms:
Hippotragus niger; sable antelope
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Hippotragus niger" 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 ("Hippotragus niger" is a member of...):
genus Hippotragus; Hippotragus (sable antelopes)