antelope
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- noun
- /ˈæntəˌloʊp/
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antílope
- There's a herd of antelope heading across the dry lakebed.
- sable antelope
- antelope skin
- antelope horns
When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eats the grass.
- When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eats the grass.
- Now, we're not chasing antelopes anymore.
- So as you're being busy quote UN quote like are you hunting field mice or antelope?
- So we go out with Fred and we go out a few times and then we learn how to catch that antelope.
- It's probably more akin to venison or antelope wild game.
- I just think that they've tasted they've tasted the last couple years and they just they're just not that ball club as far as that elite antelope level.
- So it's not just a bird or or that antelope, it's that bird that roosts in that Bush and flies down the riverbed in the morning and back up the Southern Bank.
Examples
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The antelope leaped gracefully over the tall grass as it escaped from a predator.
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Another time, partner Mike Kirk's dream of hunting antelope took them to Wyoming.
Academic text (1998) -
And that is how a baby antelope comes into the world.
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The men, with their legs so strong, keep up with the antelope as they run.
Fiction book (1998) -
What happens to those antelope out in the plains who are ill?
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You know, an antelope running through the the African Bush.
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Morgan chased after several antelope, but they were too fast for his horse.
Fiction book (1994) -
Antelopes understand that they are prey.
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You watch the birds, coyotes, and antelope, and they bicker and turn on each other.
Fiction book (1992) -
When this desert-adapted antelope pants, a special venous network cools the blood entering its brain.
Academic text (1994)
Compounds
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A fast North American animal like an antelope with small forked horns on open plains
A small striped ground squirrel that lives in dry rocky places in the western United States
A small ground squirrel with white side stripes that moves quickly in deserts
- Specialized
A wild animal like a goat with antelope features that lives in mountains and forests
- South African
A large African animal like a deer with white stripes on its back
- South African
A large African animal like a deer with a dark coat and long curved horns
- Specialized
A small ground squirrel with a white tail that moves quickly in the dry western United States
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Etymology
Antelope comes from an old name for a horned animal. A helpful way to remember it is to notice the part lope, which means 'to run with long, easy steps', so an antelope is an animal that 'lopes' quickly across the plains.