antelope
pronunciation
How to pronounce antelope in British English:
UK [ˈæntɪləʊp]
How to pronounce antelope in American English:
US [ˈæntɪloʊp]
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- Noun:
- graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Word Origin
- antelope
- antelope: [15] Antelope comes from medieval Greek antholops. In the Middle Ages it was applied to an outlandish but figmentary beast, in the words of the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch, having long saw-like horns with which they cut in pieces and broke all “engines” and even cut down trees’. The term was subsequently used for a heraldic animal, but it was not until the early 17th century that it was applied, by the naturalist Edward Topsell, to the swift-running deerlike animal for which it is now used.
- antelope (n.)
- early 15c., from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin ant(h)alopus (11c.), from Greek antholops (attested in Eusebius of Antioch, c.336 C.E.), a fabulous animal haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch and having long saw-like horns capable of cutting down trees. Original sense and language unknown (it looks like Greek "flower-eye," as if from anthos + ops, but that may be a result of Greek folk etymology). A heraldic animal, also known in Medieval Latin as talopus and calopus, the name was applied c. 1600 to a living type of deer-like mammal. In the western U.S., it is used in reference to the pronghorn.
Example
- 1. For small antelope species , the picture was slightly different .
- 2. A batfish as flat as a pancake was dredged up from the oil-slick waters in the gulf of mexico . A new species of antelope was found on sale at a west african bush meat market .
- 3. The only other place to have been delisted is an antelope sanctuary in oman , where the government actually wanted to renounce the status .
- 4. The photo above shows a view from inside of antelope slot canyon , arizona , looking up and out .
- 5. The list of species that will be banished from the park include lemurs , porcupines and antelope .