addax
a large, pale-colored antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, of North Africa, with loosely spiraled horns.
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addax, ad′aks, n. a species of large antelope found in Africa, with long twisted horns.
The ordinary height of the addax is three feet seven or eight inches, and the horns are almost exactly alike in the two sexes.
Bible Animals; | J. G. WoodThe wide-spread hoofs of the addax antelope enable it to travel over sand at a great pace.
In the Tail of the Peacock | Isabel SavoryThat the strepsiceros of Pliny, or the addax of the Africans, is the antelope.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonUnlike the addax, it is gregarious in its habits, and lives in large herds.
The Young Yagers | Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for addax
/ (ˈædæks) /
a large light-coloured antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, having ribbed loosely spiralled horns and inhabiting desert regions in N Africa: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla
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