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Definition of Gazella
1. Noun. Typical gazelles.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Gazelle, Gazella Thomsoni, Thomson's Gazelle, Gazella Subgutturosa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gazella
Literary usage of Gazella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"BM Fur rather long and harsh, grey^brown. Gazella dorcas, Gray, Cat. ...
Gazella Isidis, Sundevall. Hob. North Africa and Abyssinia; Morocco, Algiers, ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"JC GENUS Gazella—THE GAZELLES. These are small animals of slender frame; ...
Horns lyrate or semi-lyrate : Gazella donas; G. Isabella; G. rufi- frons ..."
3. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1885)
"This is slightly larger than the palate of the living Gazella bennetti, but is
in other ... Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol ip (1878), Antilope. 158 Gazella ..."
4. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1906)
"In external form the fossils approached the existing Gazella bennettii, and on
extending the comparison to casts of the anterior portion of the brain case, ..."
5. The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh by William Turner (1912)
"(4) ARCTOCEPHALUS Gazella. (ARC. GA.) (Kerguelen Island Fur Seal. ... The characters
of the skeleton in A. austral is and A. gazella are compared with each ..."
6. Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899-1902 by Sven Anders Hedin, Erik Wilhelm Dahlgren, Axel Lagrelius, Nils Gustaf Ekholm, Karl Gustaf Olsson, Wilhelm Leche, Helge Mattias Bäckström, Harald Johansson (1904)
"Gazella sp. Salga tatarica. ... ist als solches Merkmal nicht verwendbar, da
dieselbe selbst innerhalb der Grenzen derselben Gattung (Gazella) nicht ..."
7. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"The first of the genera in question includes the FIG. 58. HEAD OF GEMSBOK (Oryx
gazella). harnessed antelopes (Tragelaphus), ..."
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