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Antelope Common

Antelope has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

"The herd of antelopes bounded across the savanna, their long legs carrying them effortlessly as they chased down a grazing spot."

2

Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.

"The savanna was alive with the graceful movements of antelopes as their distinctively hollow horns caught the morning sun."