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Hippotragus

noun

sable antelopes

• Syn: ↑genus Hippotragus

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Bovidae, ↑family Bovidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑sable antelope, ↑Hippotragus niger

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\\-rə̇gəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from hipp- + Greek tragos he-goat

: a genus of large antelopes with long annulated backwardly curved horns that includes the sable and roan antelopes and the extinct blaubok

Useful english dictionary. 2012.