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Grant's gazelle

–noun
a large gazelle, Gazella granti, with distinctive long curved horns, native to the eastern African plains.

Origin:
after James A. Grant (1827–92), British explorer and Africanist
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Grant's gazelle   (grānts)   
n.  A large gazelle (Gazella granti) of East Africa that has long curved horns.

[After James Augustus Grant (1827-1892), Scottish explorer.]
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