HARTEBEEST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hartebeest" 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 ("hartebeest" is a member of...):

Alcelaphus; genus Alcelaphus (African antelopes: hartebeests)

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