HIPPOTRAGUS NIGER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns

Synonyms:

Hippotragus niger; sable antelope

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Hippotragus niger" is a kind of...):

antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)

Holonyms ("Hippotragus niger" is a member of...):

genus Hippotragus; Hippotragus (sable antelopes)

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