oryx definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns [syn: oryx, pasang] Merriam Webster's noun (plural oryx or oryxes) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, a gazelle, from ... luńcati he plucks Date: 1535 any of a small genus (Oryx) of large heavily built African and Arabian antelopes that have ... face — compare gemsbok Britannica Concise Any of four species (genus Oryx) of large stocky antelopes living in herds on African and ... Dictionary n. any large straight-horned antelope of the genus Oryx, native to Africa and Arabia. Etymology: ME f. L ...
Oryx gazella definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks [syn: gemsbok, gemsbuck, Oryx gazella]
Hippotragus or Oryx nasomaculatus definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Addax Ad"dax, n ... o]l.) One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus). Note: It is now believed to be the Strepsiceros ...
Oryx leucoryx definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Leucoryx Leu"co*ryx ... gazelle.] (Zo["o]l.) A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.
... dik-dik, duiker, eland, gazelle, gnu, hartebeest, impala, kudu, nyala, oryx, springbok, waterbuck. Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. same or antelopes ... the only other antelope within this range is the Arabian oryx (Oryx beatrix). Tristram cites two African species (the bubaline antelope, Bubalis ... the Arabs which in both cases really referred to the oryx. The only naturalist who has ever penetrated into Northwest Arabia ... Protestant College at Beirut, his object being to obtain the oryx and any other large antelopes which might be found there ... names are in fact used by the Arabs for the oryx, which is also according to Doughty called wadichah. Tsebhi ...
... 14:5; Isa 51:20) may both be the Arabian oryx (Oryx beatrix), of which the common vernacular name means "wild-ox ... of the references suit the wild-ox better than the oryx. On the other hand, Edom (Isa 34:7) was adjacent to the present home of the oryx, while there is no reason to suppose that the wild ... is possibly a reference to the long horns of the oryx in "But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn ... Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) has oryx in both passages. While we admit that both re' ...
... v. GOAT), Persian Wild Goat (s.v. CHAMOIS), Gazelle, Arabian Oryx (s.v. ANTELOPE), Chamois (2) Cervidae, Roe Deer, Fallow Deer ... the ibex is a kind of wild goat, and the oryx is a kind of antelope. The first three in the ... is inclined to question the accuracy of the observation. The oryx is fairly common in Northwestern Arabia, approaching the limits of ... gazelle, ibex, Persian wild goat, roe deer, fallow deer, and oryx, whose existence in or near Palestine is undisputed. The bubale ... Version (British and American) antelope and in the Septuagint orux, "oryx." This is a possible identification which suits also, Isa 51 ... Version (British and American) "wild-ox," may also be the oryx. The oryx is known to the Arabs under at ...
... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks [syn: gemsbok, gemsbuck, Oryx gazella] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Afrikaans, from German Gemsbock ... Bock male goat Date: 1777 a large and strikingly marked oryx (Oryx gazella) formerly abundant in southern Africa Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... Alps + bock buck.] (Zo["o]l.) A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.
... 1-9; compare Job 10:16); of the antelope or oryx (De 14:5; Isa 51:20); of the roe (Pr ... Nets were also used for other animals such as the oryx or antelope (Isa 51:20). The Egyptian and Assyrian monuments ...
... elk Date: 1600 either of two large African antelopes (Taurotragus oryx syn. Tragelaphus oryx and Taurotragus derbianus syn. Tragelaphus derbianus) bovine in form with ...
... is considered by the writer to be probably the Arabian oryx, and in this he is in agreement with Tristram (NHB ... writer believes that this also may well have been the oryx, which at the present day has at least three names ...