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antelopian

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an⋅te⋅lope

  [an-tl-ohp]
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–noun, plural -lopes, (especially collectively) -lope.
1. any of several ruminants of the family Bovidae, chiefly of Africa and Asia, having permanent, hollow, unbranched horns.
2. leather made from the hide of such an animal.
3. pronghorn.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME antelop < MF < ML antalopus < MGk anthólops a fabulous beast described by Eustathius of Antioch (d. 337); orig. of word unknown

Related forms:
an⋅te⋅lo⋅pi⋅an, an⋅te⋅lo⋅pine  [an-tl-oh-pin, -pahyn] , adjective
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Word Origin & History

antelope 
1417, from O.Fr. antelop, from M.L. ant(h)alopus, from Gk. 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 Gk. "flower-eye," as if from anthos + ops, but that may be a result of Gk. folk etymology). A heraldic animal, also known in M.L. as talopus and calopus, the name was applied in 1607 to a living type of deer-like mammal.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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